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Hanny Allston back in competitive orienteering in Sprint...

Complete knockout?

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Complete knockout? (continued)

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Min treningshverdag

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Gran Canaria 2012 - Dünen, Sonne, Berge und Katz...

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Up and down and up...

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Kenya!

Inspired by Former Stars

81 timers træning i Januar

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New friends

Tilbake i hverdagen.

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En route vers un rêve...

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Live Streaming Mass Start sprints this Friday (3rd Feb) from ...

There will be live video, commentary and results at this years Dirty D Sprint the Bay in New Zealand. The first Stage of the 6 sprint races over the weekend will be the first ever mass start sprint ra ...
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Sprint the Bay

This coming weekend marks the start of the orienteering season for 2012. This is a very important year for racing. Not only is there the Silva Superseries and qualification for worlds to think of, but ...
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FIX Tussock Traverse

The Tussock Traverse takes place on the slopes of Mt Ruapehu in the Central Plateau. While it is a similar length to The Goat, it is actually a very different race. The trails used in the Tussock are ...
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Where am I riding?

Last Sunday I explored a little travelled area in the Waikato. I packed my Superfly in the car and went in search of some quiet country gravel roads. I had 3 hours on my program so loosely planned out ...
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Running the Coastal

The Coastal Challenge (www.coastalchallenge.co.nz) is an annual running event held on Auckland’s North Shore. The course follows the coast line from Arkles Bay in Whangaparoa all the way sou ...
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Future WOC proposals

  There has been much talk recently about the proposed changes to the structure of the World Orienteering Champs. I have watched and read with interest over the last few months. I recently r ...
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Puketi MTB Park

Hamilton has mountain bike tracks! Hidden behind industrial Pukete, not far from the huge new mall at Te Awa is Pukete Farm Park. James and I headed out after work today with expectations of finding a ...
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Hahei to wind up 2012

Christmas and New Years is always a challenging time to train. I kept my routine strong right up to the 28th of December. I conveniently took an easy week over new years. The final day before I headed ...
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The Real Route to Christmas – Auckland Style

This week has been big for technical training here in Auckland. 4 consecutive days with long sessions out in Woodhill. Matt wound up the week with a Christmas special last night. Check his Christmas s ...
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NZOF Junior Camp – Camp Champs (+ Video)

The last days of Junior Camp were held at Tangoio Forest, just off to the North of the Napier end of the Napier-Taupo Highway. This forest is plantation pine, steep and scattered with cliff and rock d ...
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NZOF Junior Camp 2011 – Part 1

I went to my first orienteering junior camp in 2003. Back then the coaching I had from people like James Bradshaw, Neil Kerrison and Brent Edwards helped set me on the path to where I am in orienteeri ...
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GoPro head-cam training video

I managed to save up some mobility in my feet for a training camp with my club last weekend :)Heres a video I made with the GoPro camera footage from one of the trainings. (It looks better if you chan ...
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New Sprint Video

Check out this cool preview for STB 2012.More and more work is going into STB each year as it grows bigger and better. In 2012 we hope for the biggest turnout yet. Entry has been open less than a week ...
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World Cup 2013/Oceania teaser

Once again the blog has fallen silent but by no means does that mean the orienteering has stopped! In just over a year we finally see the return of World Cup orienteering to NZ, something I for one a ...
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WOC Preview

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s92/sh/4cbdb181-46f6-4a23-a6f6-164c3da385e1/d60e2e3554ed07b6bd84c9e8f9848fda Eight of New Zealands best orienteers have gathered in the Savoy region of France to compete ...
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Getting ahead of myself!

WOC is about to start tomorrow (the long qual) with my first race being on Sunday (the middle qual), and although I should be focusing on what Im doing I cant help but be distracted by this awesome pr ...
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France Rocks!

Quite literally too... After a week here I have 2 bad ankles, but not bad enough to stop me enjoying the awesome terrain. Before coming to France I had only heard negative things; Its soo green, Its s ...
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Cool Orienteering Video

Mick Finn has been doing heaps of great work in NZ lately trying to up the profile of orienteering by creating cool videos and magazines. This video is some of his finest work to date, covering the Qu ...
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The Pursuit of Happiness (Megablog pt.2)

The last month has been a busy one! First up I had a huge weekend over Queens Birthday, with 5 races - over 50km of orienteering including the ANZ challenge (NZ vs. Australia) :)The Saturday started w ...
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Aus WOC Trials

A couple of weekends ago I headed down to Tassie for the Australian WOC trials. A bit late writing up you might say, well since then I’ve relocated myself across the world and am now in Rome up ...
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Vote for Me! (Please??!!!) :D

Hey hey people, heres your big chance to help a kiwi Orienteer! I applied for an AMP scholarship to help kiwi people do their thing. One of the categories is a peoples choice award, so the person with ...
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Running Free...

One for the next interval session.....
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O-Squad Blog - Jumping on the Train

New Zealand elite orienteering is gathering steam, and the O Squad Blog is going to jump on this train... Everything is looking up. The Regal Orienteering Carnival is upon us. Next weekend the Pinest ...
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Training Training Training

NZ champs was the perfect motivation for me to start enjoying my training again. Im not saying I wasnt having fun before, but now Im looking forward to each session and always have a specific focus or ...
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Double National Champ!

Well then, from the title of this blog you can see that the NZ Champs at Easter weekend in Hawkes Bay went better than expected!As I mentioned earlier I was the mapper and planner of the NZ sprint Cha ...
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Getting back into it! :)

Sup! Things have been a bit up and down for me since WOC last year, both with training and just life in general. Now things are starting to look really positive again J. I had quite a long break after ...
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NZ 2011 JWOCers

Firstly, yes the little spurt of posts I had going has seemingly stopped. Sorry! But about the end of february I relocated my life over the ditch to Aussie. And as a result, lets be honest here, there ...
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Sprint the Bay 2011 - postview

The answer would be yes if you were at Sprint the Bay 2011... The weekend started off remarkably dry on the friday evening, with a first up sprint around Frimley Park. A flat park and school map a ...
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Sprint the Bay preview

Pretty much everyone connected with the NZ orienteering scene will know that this weekend sees the 2nd instalment of Sprint the Bay, a series of 6 sprint events over 3 days in the sunny (although rai ...
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Headcam and GPS fun

Whilst procrastinating at work the last couple of weeks, Ive been keeping track of an interesting discussion going on on attackpoint. Pretty much, if you dont want to read through all the comments; so ...
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How confusing is this?!

A good way to make use of a small area, looking forward to trying it. Gutted I didnt find this map til after junior camp, would have been carnage!
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Map Interpretation Skills

Above is the night event map from Junior Camp. courtesy of Nick Hann and Jamie BW who field worked the area, but unfortunately ran out of time to put it on ocad. Not to be put off, we just took the ...
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New Years Day Mission

To anyone who actually checks this blog (Jamie, Carsten, anyone else?), a happy new year! Yes, I survived junior camp and made it to 2011! Having spent a wicked new years at Jamie and Pennys, includi ...
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Sprint the Bay 2011

For the last few months I have been involved in organising the 2nd year running of Sprint the Bay. The new tour-based sprint orienteering weekend has caught the attention of a lot of orienteers, both ...
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Back to Basics

Whilst organising training for the national junior camp this week (wish me luck...) Ive come across a fair few interesting sites. Here are the ones I can remember for the moment. Have a look, play aro ...
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Course of the Year: Jukola, a kiwi perspective

As some of you might have noticed, last week World of O named Jukola this years course of the year I was actually lucky enough to be in Finland for Jukola in June, having just run the first round of ...
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World Cup 2011 schedule

As this blog seems to have missed the vast majority of 2010, perhaps its time to look forward towards the 2011 season. The World Cup schedule has been announced in the last few days, including a numbe ...
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Mega Blog!

Well well well, its been a while since I wrote anything on here. I guess Ive been a bit distracted. I suppose I should give a bit of an update for my religious followers ;) A lot has changed for me si ...
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What lies under these trees?

What exactly does Nationals Sprint 2010 have install for us on the banks of the Clutha?
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Fornicator flashing up the rankings

Check out Chris and Ems blog for the latest on the heroic story of the Fornicator vs the world of orienteering. I couldnt help noticing though that Chris is looking more and more like Dazza the flash ...
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Training training training!

Very comprehensive resource!
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B4 Nu Years

Things have been pretty quiet on here for a while, but that doesnt mean there hasnt been any orienteering going on! For me the last month and a half alone has included coaching on the national junior ...
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Zpátky v ČR...zpátky na webu…MČR již zítra…

Od poslední aktualizace už uběhlo dost času, ale mám výmluvu – nedostupný net na Lavaze :-)… již jsem zpět a zde je pár i ...
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Rybinsk (Cpe du monde ski de fond)

  La ville de Rybinsk est située à 370 km au nord de Moscou, au confluent des fleuves Volga, Cheksna et Tcheremoukha.  FIS coupe du monde Ry ...
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sprint de moscou

bonjour, hier,je courais à Moscou,le sprint skating. Les températures était plutôt fraiches, puisque il faisait -18°C. De plus,avec les tempér ...
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Fredag i bilder

Avslutningen på banan. Tjoff, så dundrar vi nerför backen å så in på stadion.Intensiva disskusioner. ”Visst är det kärvt å inte bara ...
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Waiting for surprises: Rybinsk coming up!

With many of the top names missing – especially in the men’s class – we have very open races in Rybinsk this weekend. With the cur ...
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Proste trasy

Justyna Kowalczyk niedługo po zakończeniu czwartkowego biegu sprinterskiego w Moskwie, w którym okazała się najlepsza, wyruszyła w kilkugodzin ...
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Nierras

Kallt och kärvt i Gällivare, i kallhålan kullen så var det imorse en bit under -30 grader. Funkar rätt fint att träna bara man klär sig och � ...
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Skyddad

Intervall i 24 minusgrader... Tur att man har funktionella kläder och andningsmask!Tumvantar, vind-underställ, dubbla jackor och dubbla byxor på ...
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Potatismjöl och kyla!

Potatismjöl och kyla är en väldigt bra sammanfattning av de två dygnen i Moskva som varit.Kylan visste vi skulle vara där frågan var mer hur k ...
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Rybinsk

I natt anlände vi till helgens arena- stadion i Rybinsk vid floden Volga!En lång resa var avklarad och det var mycket välkommet att få komma fra ...
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