We spent Christmas at my parents’ this year and had a relaxing few days. The excitement of Christmas was slow to grow on Emma and she had to be enticed in to opening presents. She started to warm to it a bit after that. Thankfully our Fisher Price heliport and lift and load depot off eBay went down well (they just don’t make them like that any more) and The Tickle Book and The Bedtime Bear are now regulars on the reading list. Yesterday we headed back down to Southampton via the Southern Navigators’ event at Long Valley.
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Archive for the ‘Sport’ Category
Post-Xmas Orienteering
Monday, December 29th, 2008Run Some Pubs
Sunday, December 21st, 2008
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Dibden Street-O
Thursday, December 18th, 2008Thanks to Jon Forster for organising the first SOC street-O of the year at Dibden. Jon had promised that this year it would be ‘doable’ to get all the controls (lamposts). With the tail end of a cold and the occasional wrong turn it wasn’t going to be (and it would have been tough even on a good day). I made all but two and was just under a minute late (although I’ll claim that back from number 16 being out by one lampost).
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Chalk Hill
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008A small but hardy crew braved the bitterley cold weather tonight for a run up Chalk Hill (which forms the Eastern edge of the route shown below).
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Headless
Monday, November 24th, 2008On Sunday I had my second orienteer of the week and, courtesy of Aunty Sarah babysitting, Christine had her third. It was another short trip in to the Forest of Dean, this time to the BOK Gallopen at Headless Hill. For the Forest of Dean, the area was remarkably free of undergrowth and brashings and Alice and Mark had planned a good set of courses. My problem, as with most of the forest, is the hills. They’re steep and consequently I don’t enjoy running up them, down them, or around them. This was made worse by the previous night’s heavy soaking which meant the carpet of leaves covered a good slick layer of mud.
Spectating
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008Off at Ocknell
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008Tuesday Thursday Run
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008Yesterday night’s run was what is confusingly referred to as the Thursday night run after it’s original place in the weekly running calendar. It was a fairly fast-paced run with not a lot of stopping so I was glad to have a bit of spring in my step (probably due to having not done much for the past few days). Unfortunately my watch hadn’t picked up enough satellites when we started off so the run appears to start somewhere in Portswood. You can imagine for yourself how we might have made it to there.
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