----10.07.2020----
20200710-1900: Dan Chissick - Israel
The Return of Catching Features
When Lockdown started, I wrote that I would try to participate in all the stages of the Catching Features World Cup. Having fulfilled that commitment, I have come to a few conclusions: Catching Features is probably vastly underrated. It is fantastic software that simulates orienteering very well, despite having a few drawbacks. The CFWC was […]
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----09.06.2020----
20200609-0600: Dan Chissick - Israel
30 Years of Orienteering
My orienteering career started 30 years ago today, June 9th 1990, when I first went to an orienteering event of my own free will. I had been sent to a few races by my army unit, but I didn’t know that civilian or sport orienteering existed. Then I saw an ad in the newspaper, several […]
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----02.06.2020----
20200602-1900: Dan Chissick - Israel
Restart
Orienteering (and other sports) events are now officially allowed again, and the first actual race was in Odem Forest, probably the most suitable for this time of season – there won’t be much orienteering here in the heat of summer, as usual. My endurance is more than OK, but I have no competitive speed and […]
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----02.05.2020----
20200502-1900: Dan Chissick - Israel
Independence day
Wednesday was our (72nd) Independence day. So was Thursday – because lockdown restrictions on sports activities were lifted, having been limited to a 500m radius from home for a couple of weeks (and 100m before that). I celebrated first by running a sprint course in the permitted radius, and then by trying to create a […]
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Last updated Fri Mar 5 05:00:01 2021