World Games 2017 Orienteering: All You Need to Know

WOC 2017 in Estonia

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A review about WOC in Estonia and why my season is alrea...

Having fun in the Swiss mountains - yesterday with this ...

Excited and ready for my first The World Games. Sprint d...

Enttäuscht zurück aus Estland

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I wrote down some thoughts about the World champs.

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After spending one week in the beautiful surroundings in...

I had some great time in the swiss alps since world cham...

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Let The World Games begin! Ready for another green fore...

Eine weitere WM-Medaille

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Five days left until the first orienteering race at The ...

A little battle in #WOC2018 relevant terrain! Enjoy!

Last hard session before The World Games 2017 - Wrocław...

Some competition effort in Euromeeting 2016 terrain. Bro...

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017

This year’s World Championships has been and gone and I’ve been a somewhat low key participant in southern Estonia. I raced twice with our relay teams, starting by running the opening leg ...
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Interland 2018 – Junior Selection Policy

The selection policy for Juniors for the 2018 Interland is now available from the following link: Interland 2018 – Junior selection Policy
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VHI 2017 – Vets Final Selections

The full selections for the England Veteran Home International Team can be viewed from the following link: England Veterans Home International Selections
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Ride Staffs Sportive and Cycling Festival 2017

I’ve never done a sportive before, the thought of paying to ride around some open roads to be honest hadn’t appealed to date but I thought I should be it a go and it was another ch ...
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Poland Cup – MTBO World Masters Series – Long

The long race was to the north of the previous 2 days, characterised by very steep sided  valleys and spurs and a complete mix of track ride-ability from flat out to a shoulder carry. After m ...
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Polish Masters Sprint Championships 2017

A hot afternoon brought us back to the same start as the middle earlier in the day. We watched as most starters turned right up the 60 metre climb and wondered how ‘sprinty’ the event was ...
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600th post

I’ve logged in tonight to post a couple more posts about Poland and I’ve noticed another milestone has passed – this is my 601st post since starting this blog way back in ...
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Ups and downs

Just after finishing the very tough and tricky British long championships at High Dam in the Lake District.A lot has gone on since my last post, which is half an excuse for not updating the blog. The ...
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Poland Cup 2017 – World Masters Series – Middle

The start overlooked a classic central European wooded valley with the town of Polanica-Zdroj nestling in the bottom. From there it was straight up – 65 metres of climb off the bike and push ...
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More moo cows and fences coming to Cannock Chase?

Cannock Chase has a few owners : Staffordshire County Council, Forestry Commission, Cemex Quarries, etc.. and soon the RSPB. The County Council own most of the heathland – the bit mostly covere ...
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Dark and White Summer MTBO #1 – Castleton

I arrived at a hot and dusty Castleton fairly late as I’d been to pick up an ebay purchased toolbox for the man-cave on the way there. I know the area around Castleton, Hope and Edale well from ...
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Interland 2018 – Vets Selection Policy

The selection policy for Vets for the 2018 Interland is now available from the following link: Interland 2018 – Vets selection Policy
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Poland Cup 2017 – MTBO World Masters Series

Thursday night saw the normal frantic packing and wondering if I’ve remembered everything – one day I’ll do a check list – although to be honest I’ve never forgotten anyt ...
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Crash course in MTBO!

Sunday 28th May Without warning I found myself 6 days away from the first round of the MTBO World Cup. The first part of the season had been a combination of average, sickness, and beyond expecta ...
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FINAL COUNTDOWN

Summer is here! Four weeks until the World Championships. I’ve been and explored the terrain a bit, (importantly) been selected for some races and now it’s time to put in the last hard wor ...
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SHI 2017 – Selections

The full selections for the England Senior Home International Team can be viewed from the following link: England Senior Home International Team
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Interland 2017 Report

England won Interland 2017 and a report on the match held in the Ardennes region of southern Belgium and the first bulletin for Interland 2018 are available from the links below: Interland 2017 Report ...
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TIOMILA

After a whole week, I think I’m just about recovered from Tiomila in Gothenburg. Last Saturday I arrived in style to the arena with teammate Louise on the public bus from the city centre. I wond ...
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SHI 2017 – Pre-Selections

Following the early season and JK weekend selection races, the selectors are pleased to announce that the following pre-selections have been made for the England Senior Home International Team. W21: T ...
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JK round up

Well that went better than I could have hoped. Three tightly fought individual races and mostly the seconds were almost always on my side. I won the sprint by 5, the middle by 19, lost the long by 5, ...
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READY OR NOT

Crunch time! Spring is here even though it doesnt always feel it in the air, and with it came the first really important races of the season. Last weekend I travelled to London to race at the JK ...
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Interland 2017 – Win for England Team

The England team came first in both the overall and Junior Cup competitions at Interland 2017. The event took place on the 2nd April in the Herbeumont Forest, in the Ardennes, southern Belgium. The re ...
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Twelve Weeks Later…

I always find that my optimism at the start of an injury is high, I always expect to be back way sooner than is possible and this has really been highlighted to me with this achilles injury. Despite n ...
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Early season tests

Over the last few weeks Ive put myself to the test to see where Im at technically and physically so that I can make some changes before the main season starts. As my last season was 2014, I thought&#x ...
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Interland 2017 – Final England Team

The final England Team for the 2017 Interland match, to be held in the Ardennes, southern Belgium can be viewed from the following link:” Interland 2017 – Final England Team
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Interland 2017 – Bulletin 1

The 2017 Interland match is to be held on 2 April in the Herbeumont Forest, in the Ardennes, southern Belgium, The latest bulletin is available from the following link: Interland 2017 Bulletin 1
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LAST OF THE WINTER

Winter’s still on in Farsta and the snow has been falling all morning. The winter weeks have rolled by pretty much as planned and despite the ice causing some minor cuts and bruises&nb ...
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SHI 2017 – Selection Policy

The selection policy for the 2017 Senior Home International match, to be held in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland in September can be viewed from the following link: SHI 2017 – Senior Sele ...
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KICK-OFF 2017

I’m back online! After quite the break. It turned out that renewing domains can be made into quite a complex process, and this whole site needed a bit of a new year overhaul anyway. I was lucky ...
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A New Year

These three pictures show how my year has started; injury. I’ve said it before, but it seems that I run out of luck just when things are going well. A small niggle in my left calf, unattende ...
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SVARTVIK IS THE NEW NÅSTEN

Just come and live with us! Back in summer I was looking for a new place to live and two orienteering friends, Josh and Louise, invited me to live with them in Farsta. Just like that. And I said Okay ...
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SIX YEARS

At the end of the summer of 2010, OK Linne were training in north-east Lunsen. Two short middle distance-style courses. For nearly everyone there it was a normal training session and they probably don ...
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"WELCOME TO THE NEIGHBOURHOOD"

Autumn weeks in Yorkshire and a new home for the winter... There were many times I meant to write more about my autumn in Sheffield and what running adventures I was getting up to but suddenly it was ...
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Quantock Weekend of Orienteering

Southern Night Championships and QO GaloppenRead whole story...
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Norfolk County & City Weekend

Norfolk OC invite you to the Double Dumpling weekend featuring a Parkland & Forest Event at National Trust Blickling Estate on Saturday 19th November followed by the final event in the UK Urban League ...
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World Cup Final

This weekend I made the trip over to Aarau, Switzerland to take part in the World Cup Final. My first international races in two years. I had clear aims: get some world ranking points from the long di ...
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EPILOGUE 2016

This page has been silent from halfway through the World Championships. I meant to update sooner but I was waiting to know what to say. My week ended with me being too exhausted to get out of bed an ...
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Hello!

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. I hope to post regularly about my different training and racing adventures; hopefully here will be lots to talk about this year. Warning: the post after this wil ...
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From sea to pizza – a fat bikepacking adventure

Bzzzzz. Bzzzzz. Bzz…. It’s still dark outside as I groggily roll over to turn off the alarm. 4am in fact. In an hour the sky will begin to redden over Hvalebykampen, but for now th ...
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Fatbike Packing – Oslo to Gjøvik –...

I was asked in an interview a few years ago if I’d ever try bike packing, or long distance races. Up until that moment, I hadn’t really considered it. Bike packing was just somethi ...
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WORLD CHAMPS SPRINT RELAY - 4TH

Yesterday we were 4th in the sprint relay at the World Orienteering Championships! The British team was (in leg order) Charlotte Ward, Peter Hodkinson, Kris Jones and myself. As is usual for the last ...
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Expectations

One year on from my first ever World Orienteering Championships (WOC), I find myself at my second (and only my fifth competition for Great Britain). Whilst the competition was still my aim and highlig ...
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READY FOR THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

Tomorrow its finally time to start this years orienteering World Championships in Strömstad, Sweden. My training since O-Ringen has gone quite well and Ive been able to feel strong and quick in m ...
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JOURNEYWOMAN

Its been a while. Ive been places, been training hard for WOC - which is excitingly close now, and hopefully I can write a little something about that before its time. But Ive also been busy thinking ...
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Route to Gold

My route to winning the World Champs was far from smooth. Along the way, I took wrong turns, made mistakes and lost concentration. The overall experience has made the taste of gold so much sweeter, bu ...
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SUMMERTIME HAPPINESS

Funny how quickly time passes and how history repeats itself. In this case I can flash back three years, before the World Championships in Finland, when I was lucky enough to spend time with the Nur ...
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Back in the game

Last weekend marked four months back training and was my first attempt at ‘racing’ orienteering again. It was full of mixed emotions. Amazing to be back at races I never thought I’d ...
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EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS

Its a whole week since the European Championships finished. I meant to write something during, or sooner after, but that race bubble and then recovery takes a while, even (and maybe especially) when t ...
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Sprint Scotland 14-17th July

High quality sprint orienteering including 6 training sessions, 3 races, 2 WREs, 2 Scottish Urban League races and 1 UK Urban League race, plus evening talks from Kris Jones, Murray Strain and Heather ...
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French World Cup choices.

I’m not going to write much about my performances in France for the first round of the IOF World Cup. Although satisfied with the results (double gold) my performances were nothing spec ...
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