Many thanks to Steve Pullen for organising an excellent SOC social this evening. The treasure hunt involved answering questions based on visual clues in the vicinity of Winchester Cathedral. Despite turning up late, somehow Christine and myself managed to win although having just one question sheet between the two of us nearly saw us in the divorce courts. What I found most interesting was that, in 90 minutes, we must have covered only a couple of kilometres. Just imagine how much detail of our surroundings we must be missing at a normal walking pace!
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Winchester treasure hunt
Thursday, July 27th, 2006Capricorn epic
Monday, July 24th, 2006Fellow bloggers
Monday, July 17th, 2006Thought it was about time I recognised a few of my friends and colleagues that blog (I shan’t comment on who fits in to both categories and who doesn’t!).
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Relay disgrace
Sunday, July 16th, 2006Sunny champs
Sunday, June 25th, 2006We can now breathe a collective sigh of relieve as the Junior Inter-Regional Champs came and went this weekend. Things didn’t get off to a great start when we returned from control hanging to discover that start times had been put back an hour due to transport problems (two squads missing minibuses and a third stuck in traffic). Fortunately the extra wait didn’t result in any controls wandering away and, indeed, we didn’t suffer any vandalism all day.
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Jukola post-race analysis
Tuesday, June 20th, 2006Went to the TracTrac site to relive the excitement of the last leg of Jukola over again. Then, for the reader’s amusement, added my own route to the RouteGadget map.
JOK triumphs at Jukola
Monday, June 19th, 2006SCOA sprint
Friday, June 16th, 2006At the cost of having to listen to the two England goals on the radio, we went to the SCOA AGM this evening. Normally this is an event that I’d be happy to give a miss but Christine is currently JOK President and consequently obliged to attend. On top of this, Allan Farrington (the SCOA Chairman) was promising a sprint event. This turned out to just consist of a run round the permanent course contained within the grounds of the Worthy Down army camp but it was still good fun. Controls could be taken in any order and I think my route choice was less than optimum. My time of just over 20 minutes also wasn’t helped by overshooting three controls and taking some time to relocate in amongst all the buildings. This was three minutes slower than the course record held by Richard Barrett of BAOC (albeit with a different starting point).
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