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London Olympics – Cycling Road Race Route
The final route for the cycling road race, at next year’s London Olympics, has been published today. Unfortunately it’s only available as a PDF, so I’ve plotted it on BikeRouteToaster, you can see it...
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Olympic Update
I went for another circumnavigation of the Olympic site at the weekend. I was expecting to get some nice pictures as the sun came out just before sunset, with the air very clear as it had been raining...
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Munroist in Progress
I’m currently in Scotland for the extended Easter/Royal Wedding/Bank Holiday break, and have been taking advantage of the current unusually fine weather – and a special cheap train fares deal – to...
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The Loire
Back from a proper holiday – not one involving running around forests or walking up hills, rather one visiting castles and vineyards, and even a bit of fine dining. It was a trip to the Loire with a...
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The Contour Road Book of Scotland
I’m up in Oban in the Western Highlands for the next week or so, competing in the Scottish 6 Days international orienteering races. I’ll be cycling between the venues each day – with a single gear, as...
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My autumn went roughly as planned, in terms of orienteering races, until early December where I got the first in a number of very minor injuries that were nonetheless enough to keep me from running....
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A Gate as a Map
Part Two in an extremely rare series of ornate metal maps on features, is this map, which is on the gate to a student block in Tottenham Hale. The map is only in the correct orientation (i.e....
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The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park – A Tangible Legacy
The London Legacy Development Corporation, who have the job of turning the Olympic Park into a public park post-games, have released a tantalising artist’s impression of the Olympic Park as it might...
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On Social Race Maps
I’ve been looking for a while for an online service that would post my recent race routes to Facebook, for my friends to see when I’ve been running, orienteering or cycling. This proved to be...
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The Micrarium at the Grant Museum
I was at the Grant Museum of Zoology, one of UCL’s public museums in Bloomsbury, last week, helping install a new set of iPads for some interactive exhibits in there. The museum a small but...
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North Downs Way Relay
I ran in the annual North Downs Way Relay for the third time, last Saturday, covering the leg from Charing to Hollingbourne. This year’s race was in very hot weather and the team suffered injuries,...
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Montrose to Mount Keen – Journey to Munro #200
A week up in Scotland, with my road bike, and settled weather, was the ideal chance to pick off some slightly more inaccessible Munros. Mount Keen is the most easterly of all the Munros, and well...
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Walthamstow Reservoirs
The Walthamstow Reservoirs is a true London secret, a huge area of lakes, trees and paths, which is publically accessible but largely unknown. The only people you are likely to meet in it are anglers...
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San Francisco
So… I went on a holiday last month to San Francisco. I’d been planning on a return to the west coast of America since a trip to Vancouver for a conference in summer 2012, and San Francisco is one of...
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Olympic Park Rising
The Olympic Park in east London was a flurry of colour and activity during a few weeks in summer 2012, but since then it has been largely locked away – a parcel of land opened last year, but with a...
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Kelpies and the Wheel: Falkirk on the Tourist Map
Falkirk, sitting between Glasgow and Edinburgh, but not with the fame of either, isn’t on the normal tourist trail for Scotland, however it does now have two excellent attractions at each end of town –...
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Zone 3 Orbital
London’s travel zones dictate how much your journey will cost, but their radial nature forms an interesting geography for London in general. While zones actually only apply to stations and not the...
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Book Review: The Capital Ring
The Capital Ring, by Colin Saunders, is an guide to walking the eponymous route, a 78 mile circular walk around inner London (generally Zones 3-4), one of London’s official long-distance walking...
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High Lines 4. Peckham Coal Line
This is one in a series of posts about possible High Lines for London. Look out for the next one tomorrow. The Peckham Coal Line is a potential “High Line” for south London, which has a higher profile...
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High Lines 5. Parkland Walk
This is one in a series of posts about possible High Lines for London. Look out for the next one tomorrow. The Parkland Walk is possibly the closest thing that London has to a High Line, right now....
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