3rd place at Moscow Marathon!

Euromeeting 2016: Friday - Sunday in Latvia

EPILOGUE 2016

North American Orienteering Ch...

Long run, but only discovered a small part of the impres...

On my way to North American Or...

The victorious Alpe Adria Relay team! Very well done, gi...

Swedish Championships Weekend in Karlskrona: Middle dist...

Good morning, USA! Very excited to spend 3 weeks in the ...

Enter the Red Bull Alpitude until tonight 23:59 o`clock ...

Summary of last weekend together with SCOTT Running team...

Belgian Orienteering Champion in Relay with Trol Elite! ...

The last five days I enjoyed late summer at the Adriatic...

A taste of Karst

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2nd week into a project "REST" wasn`t exactly ...

After another treatment at Rev. training I did my first ...

Northern Ryssberget was the place of the Swedish long di...

VHI 2016 Report and Results

A report from the Team Manager on the VHI 2016 held in Northern Ireland including a link to the provisional results is available from the following link: VHI 2016 Report and Results
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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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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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WJHI 2016 – England Team

The team selected to represent England in the WJHI in 2016 can be viewed from the following link: WJHI 2016 – England Selections
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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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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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Brompton World Championships 2016 – Race Report

Preparing for the Brompton World Championships held in London on the iconic Mall is a strange one. It’s the event that doesn’t take itself seriously but somehow is becoming a hyper competi ...
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Brompton World Championships 2016

Just a day to go now until the Brompton World Championships. The bike is serviced, decided to leave on the mud guards and rack but I’ve taken off the mud flap and front bag holder. What to w ...
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Jukola 2016

Jukola is a Finn phenomenon in orienteering – held since the late 1940s it has become one of the largest orienteering events in the world, this year attracting around 18,000 competitors. It&rsqu ...
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Holidays on Heb

We have been meaning to go to the Outer Hebrides for years, the sheer distance and logistics of ferries kept putting it off but this year we planned early and headed north. We took the ferry from Uig ...
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Interland 2017 – Vets Selection Policy

The selection policy for Vets for the 2017 Interland is now available from the following link: Interland 2017 – Vets Selection Policy
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Interland 2017 – Junior Selection Policy

The selection policy for Juniors for the 2017 Interland is now available from the following link: Interland 2017 Junior Selection Policy
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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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CUTTING IT FINE

Last weekend I finally, properly put myself on the line at 10Mila in Falun. Id run my first proper all-out training on the Wednesday evening of that week, which was a great feeling, and was ready at l ...
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A grand day out: 5 munros near Bridge of Orchy

It’s hard to say what I missed the most in my year out: the routine of the daily miles, the adrenaline of a world championship start line, or the breathtaking views from mountain summits. At lea ...
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FREEDOM & READINESS

Ive never been good at running slowly. Keeping to a pace, running in line with a group. Im usually busy having fun, varying the speed, getting distracted and exploring like a child playing in the fore ...
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Interland 2016 – Report

A report on the Interland match held in Belgium on the 21 February 2016 can be viewed from the link below: Interland 2016 report
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SHI 2016 – Selection Policy

The selection policy for seniors for the 2016 Senior Home International is now available from the following link: SHI 2016 – Selection Policy
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AGM 2016 Minutes

The minutes of the 2016 AGM held at Brown Clee on Saturday 30th April are available from the link below: AGM 2016 Minutes
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NEW OMM event - Chilterns

The OMM LITE series comes to the Chilterns. The 2 day orienteering event has been very popular in the Peak District and Yorkshire Dales and will be in the Chilterns in July. The event has been a big ...
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Harvester Entries Now Open!

NGOC is organising the Harvester Relays this year, at Cleeve Common, near Cheltenham. Enter on Fabian4. You can make a full weekend of relay racing as there is a nearby low-key relay on the afternoon ...
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I broke my E5 :-(

Gutted. Getting my White E5 out of the garage the other day (it was clean for a change) I noticed a huge crack in the frame on the down tube 🙁  it’s a shame but the frame i ...
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Pimping the Brompton for racing

I’ve now sorted the Brompton into racing spec 🙂 Longer seatpost Lightweight saddle SPD pedals Hard compound suspension rubber. I’ve left on the rack and mudguards until a ...
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FORWARD THROUGH THE MAZE

Things have generally gone well but still a little up and down from day to day.
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Answers

How are you?Good thanksIts so nice to be able to answer that question positively. Or just to have an answer. For over a year, I didnt know how I was. I didnt know why I felt like I was going to have a ...
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PLAN B

Its well-known that suffering an injury or other health problem is not fun for any athlete and the loss of usual ability and training routine can leave you confused, anxious and with a great perceptio ...
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Life, changes, and new challenges

My life is very much in a different place to where it was 1 year ago. HJ and I are engaged, but not living together (while he’s studying abroad). HJ retired, and I’m now riding for ...
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EL LION

Hej from Uppsala! Im finally back after rounding off the Iberian winter in style. The Linne International Orienteering N-course camp, which happened to generate the handy acronym LION, is over after 1 ...
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Brompton World Championships – I’ve got a...

Well, after not much to tell I’ve entered an event, got an entry and now have something to train for…. The Brompton World Championships!  http://www.brompton.com/Events My Bro ...
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TO THE HILLS

A week alone in a camping hut might not always be the answer but at least for me last week, it was. I had eight days between orienteering camps and chose to spend them running in Spain rather than fly ...
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Scottish Spring 2016 - entries now open

Scottish Spring 2016 (22nd - 24th April) Offers you a weekend of high quality orienteering in Pitlochry: Dark Thistle Night Race - TBC JOK Chasing Sprint - Faskally (UK Elite Orienteering League) ...
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Interland 2016 – England Team

The final England Team for the Interland Cup 2016 on 21 February at Maria ter Heide (Brasschaat), near Antwerp, Belgium is available from the link below: Interland 2016 – England Team The li ...
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ROCKS AND HARD PLACES

Last Thursday I drove up from Lisbon to Portugal O Meeting. Its one of my favourite race weekends and this year the open, rocky and bushy terrain was very challenging. Unfortunately for me it coincide ...
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LISBON O MEETING

One week ago I left the Swedish winter behind and headed to Lisbon. I was part of a small group of British runners for this Sprint-focussed camp but Linne clubmate Annika Bjork made a cameo at the wee ...
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Devon and Cornwall Night League at Saltram House - 30th Janua...

Hobbled around this nice little course yesterday evening, thought the planner did a good job in the total lack of terrain, it must have made planning difficult. Managed to get around in the 4.9km cou ...
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INTO THE FREEZER

As expected, returning to Uppsala two weeks ago was like walking into a freezer and of course the cold and snow affected training. Life goes on even in low temperatures but that shorts and vest from S ...
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Riding in dizzying circles and endless corners!

Round three of the Merida Brass Monkeys was originally due to be held the first Sunday after New Year. Due to several huge deluges of rain, pretty much all of the UK was flooded, and those areas that ...
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Goals goals goals

Finally 2016 is ON!Its important to know where you are heading.To get anything of value, you have to work hard for it. Some people think team spirit happens by itself when the right mix of people just ...
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CHASING THE SUN

On New Years Day, as Sweden started getting colder and it carried right on raining in the UK, I carried on chasing the sun to Punta Umbria, Spain, with the British team.
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Quantock Orienteers Night Orienteering - Bridgwater

So I found myself in Bridgwater for the WNL/QOAD leagues urban night event, a 1 hr score event.After the recent wet weather I was glad to get a run in dry conditions.After meeting in the comfort of a ...
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VHI 2016 – Vets Selection Policy

The selection policy for veterans for the 2016 Veterans Home International is now available from the following link: VHI 2016 – vets Selection Policy
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WJHI 2016 – Junior Selection Policy

The selection policy for juniors for the 2016 Ward Junior Home International is now available from the following link: WJHI 2016 – Junior Selection Policy
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Soggy Bottom Winter Series

This was an aptly named race. Soggy Bottom XC Winter Series. I got the soggy bum and pretty much soggy everything else too! A bit like a day at the beach I suppose. Mud everywhere: ears, nose, between ...
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