Night O is the deviant branch of standard orienteering. Tonight it involved navigating around Hampstead Heath in the dark and the pouring rain with nothing but a headtorch and a compass. Now, I’ve been orienteering since I was a teenager and I love it but until tonight I’d never done a night event. Navigation skills [...]
Susie and I head to the hills again this weekend for the KIMM – Karrimor International Mountain Marathon … and it looks like a wet one! Training has not been so enthusiastic as last year – we had a good run on the South Downs last month (see photo) which boosted our confidence. However, I’ve [...]
An uncomfortable nights camping at base camp led me to question the efficacy of my sleeping bag / mat arrangement. Managed to overcome the urge to nip in and buy a new sleeping bag from the KimmLite shop, but did succumb to proper coffee vendor … it seems somehow wrong to start the KIMM with [...]
We are Mike (35) and Susie (31) … I’ve been doing mountain marathons since 1988 and have orienteered on-and-off during that time (more off than on). Susie is a MM-virgin but has got into running recently. I thought it would be fun (as well as a good test of our relationship) to do a KIMM [...]
