okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Thursday, June 20, 2002
Living on an O' map
Mapsurfer recent wrote about the ongoing discussion of speed/track invterval and technique training. One of the things he wrote about was how technique training can be logistically difficult, "we can't just walk out our backdoor and do O training."
Most of us can't. I can't. It takes me 15 minutes of driving to get to the nearest O' map.
But, when I was most serious about training, I lived on an O' map. It was great. My building was on the map. It took about a minute to be in the woods.
Here is a bit of the map that I used to live on (my building is north of the part of the map that is shown).
The mapped area is a good bit bigger than this particular map shows. I'd guess you're seeing maybe 1/4 of the forested area. The terrain isn't as hilly as it looks (I think the contour interval is just 2 meters). The terrain is nice -- mostly open forest with lots of details and trails. Some of the trails are lit (what the Swede's call eljusspaar). In the winter, I could put in a good 10-15 kilometers of running on the lit trails. But, most of my night running was in the woods with a headlamp.
Last Summer, Kenny Walker rented a student room that is in a building immediately next to the map (right about where the "city cup" logo is).
posted by Michael |
1:10 PM
