Saturday Night
The past weekend STAG hosted a weekend of events on the excellent little area next to Loch Faskally, just North of Pitlochry. The Saturday evening saw the Scottish Night Champs on a clear and crisp night, followed by a more ‘fun’ event on Sunday, the Knoll Kollection!
I ran at a local event in Edinburgh [...]
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Scottish Night Champs weekend
Carlisle City Race
Last Saturday was the Carlisle City race, part of the Nopesport Urban League this year. Having never been to Carlisle before I was keen to run this especially as it was only a couple of hours drive away!
The day started with fog causing extremely low visibility in Edinburgh, so much so that we decided it’d [...]
JOK Chasing Sprint
The annual JOK chasing sprint was held in Edinburgh this year, so very accessible for me! JOK had teamed up with EUOC, who put on their fantastic (and dare I say it, annual) street race on the Saturady, as part of their ‘Big Weekend‘. I decided not to run the city race, I think it [...]
ESOC Sprint O
So now that I’m vaguely running again (as in, my physio told me to run as she couldn’t find anything wrong with me) I decided to have a go at the chasing sprint last Sunday, organised by my club, ESOC. I was already doing the timing for the event so it was easy enough to [...]
Orienteering Geekery
Orienteering is a sport in which it is very easy to become obsessively geeky over. SI punching, GPS and the growth of the internet have all contributed towards made this easier than ever, taking the conversations along the lines of “how did you get from control X to control Y” to a whole new level. [...]
