Archive for the ‘Sport’ Category
Pubs conquered again
Monday, December 18th, 2006New Popular Edition Maps
Wednesday, December 13th, 2006Search to see what your area looked like in the 1940s on the New Popular Edition Maps. If you can locate somewhere you know, enter the postcode and update their free database. (Free The Postcode has a similar mission.) There’s not much hope of finding our house as, back then, Chandler’s Ford was pretty much restricted to the triangle between Hursley Road, Hiltingbury Road and Winchester Road.
Cold Ash trains
Sunday, December 10th, 2006A frosty morning saw Petr, Andy, Matthew and myself heading up to Cold Ash near Newbury for the BKO district event. None of us had checked the details so it was lucky Andy got the 9:05 train not the 10:05 as last start was eleven o’clock due to the Yvette Baker Trophy final that followed. We obviously weren’t the only ones though as just after I started, they began to push competitors through at half minute intervals to get everyone out in time.
New mountain marathon
Sunday, December 10th, 2006Nopesport is advertising a new UK mountain marathon. The Highlander will be at the end of March next year up near Inverness. Should prove to be a stunning setting as there must be a strong likelihood of snow on the tops (which the courses won’t visit).
Oak orienteering
Saturday, December 9th, 2006After a frustrating week at work it was great to get out in to the Forest for a run today, particularly with the sun putting in an appearance. Mike Yeo had laid on a local event at Knightwood Oak (doing himself an injury in the process). The longest course was a green so no excuse for not running hard.
Brown at Moseley Green
Sunday, November 26th, 2006We headed over to the Forest of Dean today for Bristol Orienteering Klub‘s district event at Moseley Green. I went out on the brown course and was pleased to discover that the planner’s primary concern seemed to be to ensure that competitors saw the best bits of the area and didn’t have to fight their way through too much of the bramble infested woodland (even if this meant the odd dog leg in to and back out of a control).
Chawton Forest Park
Sunday, November 19th, 2006We went over to the BADO district event at Chawton Forest Park this morning. Yesterday’s sunshine was still with us and it was a pleasure to be out in some of the more runnable bits of the forest. This was probably just as well as I didn’t have the best of runs on the Brown course. My legs felt tired, my cold still hasn’t gone away completely and I have failed to do anything about my ankle since the OMM. On top of this I wasted at least five minutes on just three of the controls.
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