Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Monday, March 24, 2003 What has the Swedish team been up to?The Swedish O' Federation has been running a series of training logs of national team runners. It is a great idea -- they show a runner's planned training for about two weeks, then update it with what they did and some comments ever few days.Mattias Karlsson, who runs for Swampfox's club IKHP, has been the most recent runner to be featured. Last weekend, Karlsson was at a national team training camp in the south of Sweden. Here is a bit about what they did at the camp: Thursday -- Sprint O' in the town of Aahus and some short orienteering. In the afternoon, they had a hilly course at race pace -- about 50 minutes. Friday -- A 20 minute course in a difficult area with lots of big rocks (and on a 1:5,000 map) called Kjugekull. I looked up the area in google and found some info about it. There are lot of big rocks. I'll bet it makes for some cool orienteering. In the afternoon, there was a race with the start order based on the results from the morning. The course had three loops through hilly terrain and took about 40 minutes. Saturday -- In the morning a very hilly course that took about 90 minutes. Most of the runners took it a bit easy to save some energy for a race on Sunday. Sunday -- A race of about 90 minutes. One of the things they did at the camp was practice TV interviews. After one of the training sessions, the runners were interviewed on video as soon as they finished. The Swedish O' team has a consultant who is helping them deal with the media. They also had a presentation from someone with Absolut Vodka. Apparently the idea was to try to bring some ideas from a successful company. Goran Andersson said, "It is educational to learn how one packages a winning product. That's what we want to do under the WOC week in Switzerland." That seems a bit strange to me, but I suppose it might have been interesting. While the Swedes were having a national team camp in southern Sweden, the Norwegians were at a national team camp in northern Denmark. I hope some of the Norwegian O' web pages have some reports. I'd like to compare the two camps. Will the Norwegians have spent their time differently? posted by Michael | 8:08 PM 
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