My first attempt at being the organiser for an event today. I've course planned many times before, but need to have organised an event in order to become an accredited controller. The weather was good, the toilets arrived on time, no-one got lost or injured and all my volunteers were great. Best of all, 160+ people enjoyed themselves even if the nettles were a bit aggressive

Rckschau ARDF-EM 2024

Offene Fragerunde
Do, 14.11.24 19.00 Uhr

Zum dritten Mal in vier Jahren sprang kurzfristig als Ausrichter der regionalen Meisterschaft im ein. Team Leader Alex teilt seine Perspektive auf die Wettbewerbe in Primorsko.

Alle Interessierten sind lich eingeladen.

Survived the regular post-orienteering sock clean. I haven't decided if it's better to do pre- or post-wash.

Anecdotally, there seem to be fewer seeds and stickers in them since I started wearing running gaiters.

Friday afternoon is a good time to leave work and go in the woods.

A short, simple course but the map (deliberately) did not have the trails marked, which made it surprisingly more challenging.

My dead-reckoning is still okay. But my distance estimation is still garbage. Any time I tried to do anything slightly more sophisticated than straight-line dead-reckoning, I ended up getting myself into a stupid pickle.

Still. Beautiful autumn day, so who cares.

A delightful, albeit exhausting, day spent marking control sites for the orienteering event I am planning on the Quantocks at the end of the month

But today!!

Terrible photo of "neat the goat" checkpoint

I thought that city sprints are always easy to navigate...
Until today

There is an open air museum of the local villages and life at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Location full of curvy paths with plenty of crossings wooden buildings small fields, yards, fences enhanced with artificial barriers turned out to be pretty insane but super cool.

I managed to get lost right after the start
Anyway all checkpoints punched and I still finish in time limit so success :D

A good thing I forgot to bring my gps watch. The objective track might have been even less flattering than my memory of it.
But it was a great race. There really are some nice runnable forests left in our area.
Some Swedes had joined us, too.

One kind of achievement unlock: A short article about Control in our Finnish magazine Suunnistaja

In the absence of any events in East Anglia this weekend, I went to the Bug Hunter Waters . Just running round a path still seems a bit pointless to me and I feel more comfortable with a map in one hand and a compass in the other. A tarmac path (and a bit of road) meant fast times, but still no PB with a time of 22:12 (I was a younger man then!). On the upside this was the first that actually came up as the full 5k on my Garmin, so I got a new 5k record on that.

Amazing off trail running by these orienteering athletes. Running across the forests at this pace. Finding your course with map and compass and then getting to the checkpoints. Nice channel i discovered. Excellent visualizations with the track. And the data being shown.

And this was the start of the "D-Cup" yesterday, a mixed relay in teams of 5, with the legs between 1.7 and 4.6 kms. If the weather had been better, Festung Knigstein castle would be in the background.

Just back from a memorable, well-organized and fun weekend in and near including my first indoor o competition, which turned out more challenging than expected (took me about an hour!) and was even seasoned with typically saxonian tongue-in-cheek humour on some passages.

Und mit dem Herbst-OL gehts ab in die

Backpack is ready and I'm raring to go!

Tomorrow I'll go hiking nearby the city with my orientation course colleagues and we'll make an outdoor lesson.

Using Mapy, Komoot and Garmin GPS is fine, but what if...
This is also my first class that will give me credits for the preliminary trekking guide exam, so I'm very happy.

"An Weihnachten 2019 erleidet Judith Wyder einen Hirnschlag mit gerade einmal 31 Jahren und inmitten ihrer Schwangerschaft."

"Bereits zwei Jahre nach ihrem Hirnschlag bestreitet Judith Wyder wieder Rennen. Und dies erfolgreich. 2024 stellt sie beim Mont-Blanc-Marathon einen neuen Streckenrekord auf."

Starke Geschichte.

Today we carried out championships in a very special German variety of : Mannschaft. Team, but not relay: There's a course that all 3 team members have to register plus a number of controls that are shared among the team members.
The chance to produce mispunches is rather big. This time it was me who forgot a control.

today:
German Championships Relay
near Goslar

Some maps are beautiful, and some maps are not. Some forests are a joy to run through, and some are not. Being in something like this makes me feel like I'm 19 again, even if the terrain doesn't go by so quickly ) - this week's training course at Mttsund.

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Today 9:30 (7:30 UTC), the last competition of the Region 1 Championships
in , , starts. The uses weak permanent transmitters. Participants must use the orienteering map to get close enough to the locations before they can use the direction finding receiver.

Homepage:
Live results:

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September 1-7, 2024

Region 1 Championships in , . 190 athletes compete in 4 races: sprint, , 3.5 MHz classic, 144 MHz classic.

Homepage:
Live results:

Control Club is out! Go ahead and join! Even if you dont do , you can follow top orienteers!

App Store:

Play Store:

I was feeling tired at the end of my (rogaine) run, and figured it was because I was at mile 15 or so. Then I finished and saw I had actually done 20.5 miles. No wonder I was dragging!

Explore the exciting world of uncommon outdoor sports like orienteering and geocaching, perfect for adventure enthusiasts.

Aujourd'hui:
Championnats de France de relais, Course d'Orientation

Herrarna snart i ml i stafetten i orienterings-EM. Sen dags fr damerna strax efter 16.

ADORO IL GENIO - GPS

A volte il e nel telefono possono essere davvero utili.
A volte.

You either have to be a very spectator friendly sport, or know which palms to grease at the IOC. Ask anyone at the International Federation.

If you can't run through forests in Finland, Scotland is a very seriously good alternative.

Most of my controls were "not optimal"

Final features of Control Club are done: Comparing a route from a feed to your own and commenting! Feels pretty good now. But there are bugs, lots of them... Still release in about 2 weeks is realistic!

I think I'm pretty okay with being called a "young nerd" by John Oliver in his last episode when talking about

Morning line at O-ringen.

Happy participants a few seconds before the mass start to the special "baby fox" challenge. Meeting friends from Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Germany in Maasmechelen.

The world's most exclusive keep out sign. The tape in Edinburgh's Canongate was to close off an illegal shortcut in the World Championship knock out sprint final. It applied to just 12 elite athletes.

Track and field: A carpet, an oval
The Dark Side. City streets, offices, runners colliding and a sheep.

An athletic World Championship, top class competition, far more exciting than running around in circles, in a scenic capital city

Yet a total media black out. Dark athletics

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