Orienteering in Soldier magazine, July 2015
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Orienteering in Soldier magazine, July 2015
Coverage of Army orienteering in July 2015 edition of Soldier magazine - http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/76e ... 6e9b068/32
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Re: Orienteering in Soldier magazine, July 2015
Pity they can't spell in the link at the end of the article.
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Don't you just love the positivity on here.
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Re: Orienteering in Soldier magazine, July 2015
Speaking as a more senior member of society. ..I love army events. It's great to beat the young squaddies. Shows you the importance of technique over pure fitness in a way that isn't always obvious when you are competing against your peers (fogies).
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babs f wrote:Pity they can't spell in the link at the end of the article.
And a pity you didn't check what Google gives you when you do search on www.boac.info
I got offered www.baoc.info instead.
One enhancement of this type of online media is the use of links from the pages to the relevant website, most of the publishers offer this these days
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Re: Orienteering in Soldier magazine, July 2015
When I looked, I got "server not found".
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I get "www.boac.info is unavailable or may not exist"
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Adrian wrote:I get "www.boac.info is unavailable or may not exist"
It used to exist but then it merged with BEA. But that was well before Tim Berners-Lee was around
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Re: Orienteering in Soldier magazine, July 2015
Using Google chrome - entering 'www.boac.info'
comes up as British Army Orienteering Club
comes up as British Army Orienteering Club
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Re: Orienteering in Soldier magazine, July 2015
Now this is really what gets orienteers interested....the relative merits of different search engines.
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Just putting URLs and search engines aside for one moment, that was one of the best-written write ups of orienteering I've seen for a while - seemed to me like it really captured what makes orienteering orienteering. Great job whoever arranged that one.
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BAOC events are great this is one of my favourite areas ever.
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Test races at SprintScotland (Alloa/Falkirk) and Euromeeting (near Stirling).
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Re: Orienteering in Soldier magazine, July 2015
daffdy wrote:Just putting URLs and search engines aside for one moment, that was one of the best-written write ups of orienteering I've seen for a while - seemed to me like it really captured what makes orienteering orienteering. Great job whoever arranged that one.
This is why I was concerned that soldiers who were interested might not find the website.
And I agree with JohnRobinson on competing in army events. As a (slow) W60, beating young squaddies on a Blue course is very satisfying.
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graeme wrote:BAOC events are great this is one of my favourite areas ever.
Indeed. I did a very novel format sprint event in Golden Gate Park.
It was the final of their sprint season: 30s Interval start, no gaffling, start in order of positions in the sprint series at that stage, first timers (ahem!) started last. 4 sprints in total, each start order decided by finishing order of previous ones.
http://baoc.org/wiki/Results/2008/Golden_Gate_Park
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