Yesterday evening I went along to a training session of our local orienteering club – Heming/NjÃ¥rd O-Lag. The training session was held on the 1:5,000 map of the area surrounding Rikshospitalet, just 10 minutes run from home and conveniently also the area to be used for the first Oslo Cup race next Tuesday. The club is relatively small but has a strong junior section, particularly in the girls. There are no elite men and the older members seem happy devoting their time to training the younger club members. Tonight was mass start/relay training and consequently I found myself lined up for a race alongside the club’s finest.
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O-Training
April 4th, 2008Sognsvann Rundt Medsols
April 3rd, 2008Thanks to the Coombses who, as well as being very hospitable, have acted as our unofficial guides to outdoor activities in Oslo, I found myself lining up with about 90 other runners on the shore of Sognsvann for the second Sognsvann Rundt Medsols of the year on Wednesday evening. This is a weekly race taking place until the end of October which, as the name probably suggests, follows the pretty flat 3.5km trail around the edge of Sognsvann. You have the choice of running 1, 2 or 3 laps with most people opting for just one (as did I).
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Wet weekend
April 1st, 2008
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Web messaging lack of service
March 31st, 2008Last week I spent a not entirely constructive hour or two with a customer trying to get them started with the web messaging service. This is a component of the Feature Pack for Web 2.0 which provides a bridge between the default messaging provider’s publish/subscribe capabilities and an Ajax (Comet) client. The InfoCenter contains a great quick start guide but it was missing one vital piece of information.
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Long walk home
March 27th, 2008As previously mentioned, I’m working in the city centre this week and with the T-bane so close, it’s less than half an hour from front door to desk. However, I arrived at the NationalTheatret station this evening to find several trains pulled up at the platform. After 15 minutes sat listening to unintelligible announcements I decided to join the 50% of poeple who had got up and left rather than the 50% who were still sat in the train. I arrived at a nearby tram stop just in time for a tram out to the Rikshospitalet which is any easy walk from home. Only the tram didn’t show up. After another five minutes wait another tram appeared, this time bound for Majorstuen which is in the right direction for home. Unfortunately it was absolutely packed with passengers squashed up against the doors. I started walking…
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Shipping arrived
March 26th, 2008Hooray – our shipping was finally delivered on Tuesday. Christine had most of it unpacked by the time I got home from work and we’ve now found somewhere to store the majority of the bits and pieces although there is a rather large pile of flattened cardboard boxes peeking out from under the bed. Let’s hope that doesn’t constitute a fire hazard! Mealtimes are now relatively civilised again with Emma in her high-chair and she is also glad to have her baby bath back having never really taken to showering!
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More snowy capers
March 23rd, 2008Sunshine and snow
March 22nd, 2008
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