Category Orienteering in Europe
Vienna Orienteering Challenge
After farewelling Ljubljana, we took a 6 hour bus ride across northern Slovakia and southern Austria, mentally switching to German as we crossed our umpteenth border. We duly checked in to our final apartment, visited the local supermarkets, washed a ton of grotty clothes, and tried to rest up before Race 1 of the Vienna […]
Needles and Pins
With a MapRun event planned for this evening, in Totton, which is just west of Southampton, it made sense to spend the day in the vicinity. The skies were clear of wet stuff, and the Isle of Wight was our destination of choice. This made for a day of logistics, with a return ferry and […]
Rhein Main City Race Part 2
Another early start to the day; this time the event centre was at Kapellplatz, within walking distance. We arrived well before 9am, and met Philly and Stephen for our last day of orienteering. From here, we are off to Barcelona, while they will be hiking in the Bavarian Alps. Today was the headline event of […]
Rhein Main City Race, Part 1
We began our second weekend of orienteering last night. Proceedings kicked off with a prologue, with choose your own start times from 6pm. The courses had been altered at the last minute due to a big soccer match, so we missed out on the campus section, and just used a park and adjacent residential streets. […]
Aargauer 3 Day Orienteering, Final Day
Sadly we had to leave Tiny House behind, and do our last trip across to Riniken. It was already a warm morning at 9am, with the promise of 30 degrees plus. I was glad it was the Sprint day and not the Long or Middle. It was all abuzz with kids everywhere; one of the […]
Aargauer 3 Day Orienteering, Day 2
But first, a short walk into Germany … Bad Saeckingen’s main claim to fame is Europe’s longest covered bridge, crossing the Rhine and providing a border crossing for pedestrians and cyclists (no customs booth). Built 400 years ago, it was restored in 1990, and is a thing of beauty. It smells of very old timbers, […]
Aargauer 3 Day Orienteering, Day 1
Today was our first orienteering event of the trip, but with starts in the early evening, we didn’t have to go anywhere until 4pm. So we declared it a catchup day – slept in, then whiled away the time sitting in the sun, doing a few emails, and generally not much of anything, until it […]
IT’S DONE.
The Ice-O is Done for 2019. The last day was cold and with a bitter wind. A final reminder that this is Iceland and you do not take her for granted. Pete had another steady run coming in 3rd on the final day to add to my second in the sprint and a […]
ICE-O. Days 1 and 2.
The Ice-O began on Friday with an evening sprint wich started in a local school at 6.00pm. This gave Ilze and I time to explore the Hallgrimskirkja which looms over Reykjavik. It is difficult to photograph as the sun always seems to be behind it. The statue out the front celebrates the Viking explorer Leif […]
SS6D Days 5 & 6. Goodbye Little Red tent.
And so it’s done. The Scottish 6 days has been run, and all orienteers run ragged. The courses and terrain were difficult. Getting to the starts was even more difficult, with many competitors having more climb and distance to their starts, than their actual courses. Today’s event, the final day of competition, had a remote […]
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