{"id":372,"date":"2009-02-03T21:06:33","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T20:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=372"},"modified":"2009-02-03T21:06:33","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T20:06:33","slug":"a-crash-course-on-sportident-for-coboc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=372","title":{"rendered":"A Crash Course on Sportident for COBOC….."},"content":{"rendered":"

UK\u00a0orienteering clubs use 2 types of electronic punching and timing systems, Sportident<\/a> and Emit<\/a>, with Sportident holding the major share. I have been involved with Sportident systems and kit since 2000 when it was first introduced into the UK. Originally my involvement was\u00a0just with Chasers, but I have also worked for Sportident UK <\/a>as an\"\"<\/a> event consultant for several years.<\/p>\n

Since 2006 several of the smaller West Midlands Orienteering clubs have taken the plunge and invested in their own kit, rather than hiring as they did before. I have therefore been helping Wrekin Orienteers<\/a>, Potteries Orienteering Club<\/a> and now City of Birmingham Orienteering Club<\/a> to get their skills up to scratch to enable them to run events on their own.<\/p>\n

So Saturday morning\u00a0saw me knocking on the Stamp family door at 8.30am (waking them up) trying to retrieve my mobile phone which had the details of where I was supposed to be that morning, having\u00a0left it at the club dinner the night before (sorry Iain!). I had decided to combine the trip down to Sutton Coldfield with a training ride, so off I went. It was a fairly pleasant ride…until I had a coming together with a car which came straight over a crossroads into my path with no time to take avoiding action.<\/p>\n

My GPS plot afterwards showed I was doing 25kph at the time, and\u00a0the car\u00a0was accelerating\u00a0across \"\"<\/a>the main road along which I was travelling. I managed to turn slightly and crashed into her wing mirror and passenger door managing to\u00a0lean onto her mirror as she slowed and took me round the corner into the side road, before I fell off onto the pavement. I was a little shaken but there was no damage to myself or the bike. A couple of other motorists stopped and ran to help, which was extremely kind, as were their offers to drive me home. The lady was very apologetic, almost in tears, saying she just had not seen me. I didn’t\u00a0get stroppy\u00a0or anything, there is just no point, she will be more careful next time so we all went our separate ways. I have posted a little diagram for those that\u00a0need the full facts \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>So a little late I arrived at Sutton Parks Outdoor Ed Centre and spent the day bringing a good turnout of COBOC<\/a>\u00a0members up to speed with the Sportident hardware and then Autodownload<\/a>,\u00a0the event software. After a lengthy explanation of the various components and some classroom practice they put out a small course and ran round deliberately making mistakes so we could practice using all aspects of the software, whilst I stayed in the warm drinking tea and trying to resist the enormous box of biscuits. Back from their run around we downloaded all the Si Cards and practiced the safety checks, query resolution\u00a0and getting results out ready for the Internet. Job done it was time to get back into smelly cycle gear and\u00a0ride home without sitting on the floor again.<\/p>\n

Mark Stodgell ( stodge )<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UK\u00a0orienteering clubs use 2 types of electronic punching and timing systems, Sportident and Emit, with Sportident holding the major share. I have been involved with Sportident systems and kit since 2000 when it was first introduced into the UK. Originally my involvement was\u00a0just with Chasers, but I have also worked for Sportident UK as an … <\/p>\n

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