okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Monday, May 19, 2003
Do over
I've been orienteering for 23 years, and now and then I like to amuse myself by thinking of things I'd do differently if I could start over again.
One thing I wish I'd done was keep better records of my orienteering. I wish I had all of my race maps and, in particular, notes about all of my races and the maps I've run on.
In my first few years of orienteering I wrote a lot of notes about my races and the different maps I ran on. I've still got some of those notes. After a few years of orienteering, I stopped writing notes after each race. Maybe I thought I knew what I was doing and that writing notes wasn't helping me learn. Or maybe I just got lazy. In any case, I wish I hadn't stopped.
I look at a map from a place called Flims almost every day (a framed copy is in the bathroom in my house). Flims is where this summer's WOC middle distance race will be at Flims. I was trying to remember what the terrain was like (I ran there in 1984). I can't remember much. If I'd written (and kept) notes from when I ran at Flims, I could look at those notes and it might jog my memory.
It is never to late to start again. I should probably start writing notes about races and places again.
posted by Michael |
9:02 PM
