okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Thursday, June 13, 2002
Expect the next update Monday
I expect to be away from a computer for the next few days. Don't look for any updates until Monday.
If you're looking for some interesting O' reading, check out Kenny Walker's training log on Attackpoint. On June 11 he wrote some interesting comments about his racing in Belgium and Switzerland at the World Cup races. Here is an excerpt:
I think the real problem is that I don't practice continental orienteering, which is a lot different than what I'm best at. contours and rock features: no problem. welcome to new england or scandinavia. the maps I had the biggest problems on (sc relay, wc1 final, wc4 relay) had hardly any contours I could use for navigation. the primary features there were trails and veg boundaries; both subject to a lot of interpretation in places.
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If I'm going to run well in switzerland next summer, I'll have to practice a bit differently sometimes. I'm not sure where to find boring terrain around here, but contours-only or no-compass training (among my favorites) probably won't help. probably the best thing to do around here is to run courses designed to force the use of "continental techniques." for the moment, I'm switching back to pre-season mode training (more volume, less races)
Intersting stuff.
We can hope that Kenny will write some more in the next few days.
posted by Michael |
1:04 PM
