Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Thursday, November 28, 2002 Some thoughts from Johan IvarssonIt was about 9:30 last night when I couldn't take much more. UNC was spanking the Jayhawks. It was interesting for a while. UNC was playing great and giving Kansas a lot of trouble. It was fun to see how Kansas tried to adjust. But, then it just got tiring. I couldn't quite get myself to turn off the TV. But, I also couldn't quite get myself to watch.I picked up a book sitting on the table next to me and started reading with the TV on in the background. I read a bit of an interview with Johan Ivarsson. Here is a translation of a bit of the interview: I don't do any cross-training during the competition season. I want my O' training to be like upcoming competitions or my main goal for the season. I try to do a lot of model trainings. I think about the course setting and look at old maps from terrain that is similar. I think about the mental aspects: techniques and tactics, that the orienteering will steer my running speed, that I will be prepared to stop when I get unsure -- put on the brakes if I need to. During a race I'm often a bit passive at the end of the course, I seldom blow a race near the end. I tend to begin harder than most. My tactic is to take each control one at a time. I seldom look at the whole course and see it is difficult at the end. Kent Olsson said, "if you go hard from the beginning and it goes well, you'll be able to keep going hard all the way to the finish." I try to look at the route to the next control if I can, but not at any cost. I'd rather take an extra ten seconds at each control. Thanks, Johan. You helped get my mind of the basketball game! posted by Michael | 9:32 AM 
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