Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Thursday, February 06, 2003 Performance auditing and course settingA few days ago I wondered, "what process do the best course setters go through when they are designing a course?"I don't know the answer, but I decided to try an experiment. What would happen if I used the basic process we follow in performance auditing to design a course? I'm going to test my process by designing a course on the area where the long distance world champs race will be held this summer. So, here is my course setting process as inspired by performance auditing: Planning I'll begin by looking at the map and answering some questions: What types of terrain are on the map? What constraints do I have to deal with? What problems will orienteers face in this area? Since this is an experiment, I'll write down the answers to the questions. Design For each of the types of terrain I identified in the planning, I'll design one or two long legs. Then I'll connect the long legs, trying to make sure the runners face as many different problems as I can. Quality Assurance I'm not sure how my quality assurance process will work. I could grade each leg. I could review each control to make sure I don't have any "bingo" controls. I could go over my list of problems (which I developed in the planning stage) and make sure I've included all of them. I could make sure I've met each of the constraints. It might be worth having an independent review (get Mary to look at the legs, for example). What's up with the okansas course setting competition? I've got five or six entries. They're on my PC. I plan to print them out and take them with me on my training camp (Spike's Sonoran Safari) in late February. Looking at the courses will be a good way to pass time on the flight and between flights. I'll also be able to get Mook and Andreas to help me grade the courses. posted by Michael | 7:21 PM 
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