Category Archives: Training

Some things I have been doing recently: London to Eastbourne I cycled 130km along most of National Cycle Route 21 on Saturday, from London to nearly Eastbourne (nearly, because I set out late as usual and it got too dark to do the final 30km). As usual with NCN routes, it tends to take you […]

At the beginning of this year, I set myself the goal of doing 50 hours of orienteering, 50 hours of running/spinning training, and 50 hours of cycling (not counting commuting, but including cycling to events.) Today is Day 127 – or 17.4 hours in, how am I doing? Orienteering: 17.6 hours Running/Training: 10.1 hours Cycling: […]

Here’s some of my favourite trail runs I’ve done or would like to do shortly. Epping Forest 18km – Covered by four orienteering maps. Gorhambury 15km – From Iain’s house in St Alban’s. Port Meadow 12km – My “standard” long circuit while at Oxford.

Inspired by a discussion at Attackpoint, I’m going for a modest (i.e. achievable) New Year’s resolution for 2006: 50-50-50. That is, 50 hours of competitive orienteering. 50 hours of training (probably mainly spinning in the gym.) 50 hours of long-distance bike rides (i.e. >1 hour/day.) That’s just under an hour a week for each of […]

I’m recording my event results (and any training I happen to do – probably including the bike commute to work!) at Attackpoint. See here for my orienteering/training activity in the last 28 days. So far, I’m not hugely impressed with Attackpoint. It looks slick, but I got numerous errors when trying to add my first […]

After arriving in Gothenburg on Saturday on a horribly early morning flight, and getting so lost on the way from the airport (always an embarrassment for any orienteer) that we ended up twice as far away from the city than we started, no one was really up for too much orienteering. But the following day […]

As expected, I’ve bounced back very quickly from Monday’s low back injury, and was back at work today. I didn’t make the event tonight though. Assuming the pain continues to decrease, Sunday’s event is looking good. My parents must be reading all three of my weblogs like every 10 minutes. I post to Yep Sport […]

My knee injury, which happened this time last year after I plunged my foot down a rabbit role while racing in a National, has recurred. The timing is unfortunate, as I’ve really come into fitness in the last few weeks, and seen my speed steadily increase. My injuries however always seem to happen after periods […]

A very lazy month for orienteering, characterised by either not bothering to get out of bed for events, missing crucial trains, or turning up on the wrong day for the event… I also lay low to nurse a minor injury – my chest muscle, believe it or not, got strained in the Yellowcraigs event in […]