Category Archives: Lopen

Glen Coe 2017

After the last Glen Coe Skyline, I found myself wanting to play a bit with the data. First of all because it is such a nice race and secondly because there are a lot of intermediate times to play with. … Continue reading

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How to kill a dragon?

During the Dragon’s Back Race runners cross Wales over a five stage race. Every day a certain number of checkpoints needs to be visited, but between those checkpoints the route is free. Most of the time, the best route is … Continue reading

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How to kill a dragon? Day 5

Day 5 of the Dragon’s Back Race. The final day. This stage is a bit shorter to allow all those still in the race to finish somewhat comfortably. After a few first legs without obvious choices, the runners enter the … Continue reading

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How to kill a dragon? Day 4

Day 4 of the Dragon’s Back Race is for me the least interesting stage. It contains a rather big amount of road running, including a very long descent to reach the finish line. The entire stage The fastest time was … Continue reading

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How to kill a dragon? Day 3

Day 3 of the Dragon’s Back Race is less mountainous than the previous two stages. In distance, however, it is the longest stage of the entire race. The entire stage The fastest time was run by Jim Mann with 552.1 … Continue reading

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How to kill a dragon? Day 1

Day 1 of the Dragon’s Back Race started in Conwy Castle and finished south of Yr Wyddfa after a crossing of Snowdonia including the Welsh 3000ers. The entire stage The fastest time was run by Jim Mann with 470.0 minutes. … Continue reading

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Rogaine Barcelona: een analyse

In maart nam ik samen met Siebrig deel aan de Barcelona Rogaine. Zoals de naam laat vermoeden gaat deze door in de buurt van Barcelona, in Spanje. Als twee niet orientatielopers vind ik dat we het er vrij goed van … Continue reading

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Hardrock: how lucky do we really need to be?

So, now that the (or rather “a”) distribution of the number of tickets is available, we can try to find out what our chances are of getting in instead of guestimating with some handwaving. I will work based on the … Continue reading

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Hardrock: the hardest is getting in

Lottery for the Hardrock closed last weekend and the lottery is coming up next week, so we (=anyone in the hat I guess) start wondering what our odds of getting in are. Slim as always of course. The lottery is … Continue reading

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Tor des Géants: leg 7

The finish of the Tor is in Courmayeur, back where it all started. Runners have covered there 48 km with 2880 D+ since leaving Ollomont and 330km with 24000 D+ since leaving Courmayeur. And we have intermediate times in Saint … Continue reading

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