Having co-founded and been heavily involved in the organisation of the London City Race over the last six years, this year I’m taking a step back and looking forward to being a competitive runner at the seventh event, for the first time. After five years rotating around various parts of the City, and last year… Continue reading London City Race 2014
Category: Orienteering
OpenOrienteeringMap now Worldwide
I’ve released a new version (v2.1) of OpenOrienteeringMap today, and there are now three editions – UK (as before), Ireland and Global. An earlier global version existed from 2010 to 2012, and has been able to be re-implemented thanks to a server upgrade at work. I hope to have it running for as long as… Continue reading OpenOrienteeringMap now Worldwide
London City Race VI: Preview
The big urban orienteering event on the streets of London, that Brooner and I started back in 2008, is once again fast approaching. Edition 6 takes place on the 22nd of September. A few key differences this year – it’s on a Sunday, it’s in a brand new area for urban orienteering – Canary Wharf… Continue reading London City Race VI: Preview
Urban Race Season
It’s late summer, the Scottish 6 Days are over, it’s time for Urban Race Season in the UK! As people return from holiday, and with the forests remain overgrown, late August and September are the peak time for races taking place in the cites rather than the countryside. Four weekends of interest for those in… Continue reading Urban Race Season
Scottish 6 Days Part 2: Day 6 & Trail-O
The final day of Moray 2013 looked, on paper, quite similar to the others – around 9km, like the previous 5 days. However it was quite different in feel, with the combination of climb (495m) and both technical and physical sections of the course, meaning most people, including me, took ~20% longer than on their… Continue reading Scottish 6 Days Part 2: Day 6 & Trail-O
The Scottish 6 Days at Moray
I’m just back from six days of top quality orienteering races in Moray, north-east Scotland. As ever, the days were very varied, with three days of forested dunes, two hilly inland map, and one flat (but still intricate) forest that I once trained in when in the Army section of the CCF at school! The… Continue reading The Scottish 6 Days at Moray
The Bonington Trophy
An unexpected recent pleasure was being awarded the Bonington Trophy for Services to Mapping, for 2013, by British Orienteering. It was presented to the club in my absence at the British Orienteering AGM in April, and then presented to me at a club event a couple of weeks ago. Thanks to Angus and my club… Continue reading The Bonington Trophy
OpenOrienteeringMap v2.Beta
About a year ago, I mentioned that I would be spending a bit of time rewriting OpenOrienteeringMap (OOM). The web application, which people use to create printable simple “street orienteering” (or Street-O) maps for use in low-key events such as the SLOW Street-O series events, has been around for a bit, and was not the… Continue reading OpenOrienteeringMap v2.Beta
Orienteering Plans for 2013
Here’s the events I’m aiming to run in for the first half of this year, plus five big weekends in the latter half. *M* = possible Munro trips. Edinburgh Big Weekend, 26-27 January YES! 3 February 10 February CSC Qualifier, 17 February YES! Burnham Beeches, 24 February YES! VM, 2-3 March? YES! 10 March 16/17… Continue reading Orienteering Plans for 2013
Urban Events – How Far Do People Travel?
Intrigued by a comment on the Nopesport forums suggesting that local clashes rather than a very major international clash were the thinking behind the scheduling of a future urban event, I thought I would do some analysis of how far people travel to races, using my stats database of results. To do this, I’ve excluded… Continue reading Urban Events – How Far Do People Travel?