Oxford Street-O Series

Thanks to everyone for coming despite the damp weather, I hope you enjoyed your runs. The results are now available with Routegadget to follow soon. Congratulations to Ben Stevens who won by a comfortable margin, and to Roger Thetford and Rosemary Dyer who lead the series after the first two races.

The map for Wednesday’s Headington event has now been posted on Routegadget. For those of you who haven’t done much orienteering, this is an online tool which lets you draw the route which you took and compare it with others. For example, you can compare the relative distances of each runner’s route – did you pick a more efficient route than your rivals? It’s also possible to watch an animation of everyone’s progress as if we all started together. Routegadget gets more interesting the more people draw their routes, so please add yours when you get the chance (assuming that you can remember it!).

The countdown to this year’s first street-o event has reached four days to go, so I hope you’re all prepared for this season and that we get a big turnout in Headington on Wednesday. Look out for a slight modification to the mapping standards – we now have a special symbol to highlight roads and paths which do not have street lights, though with start times from 6.30pm early runners will no need to worry about this as it won’t be very dark!