Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Tuesday, August 19, 2003 Words from Kent (via Mikell)It should hit 104 later today (40 C). Despite the heat, I'm going to run a trail race in Lawrence after work. Well, the event is a race, but I'll just take it easy because of the heat.Without much time to write anything, I'll just pass on a bit that Mikell Platt wrote: In his co-authored book with Lasse Hogedal, "Path To Success", Kent Olsson wrote about the strategies leading up to his VM Gold in 1987 in France, which most O' historians remember principally as the year the French got their revenge on the Swampfox in the VM doping tent. One of the things Kent did was spend several weeks mapping that summer in order to get the right feeling for map reading. If Kent--as one of the top orienteers in the world--felt it was important for him to do that then, and a good use of the time he had available to prepare and train, then it sure seems like mapping could be a good way for mere mortal orienteers to also improve. Yet I have the suspicion that if you tossed a map board and some pencils into a gang of US Blue runners these days, you might be taken to jail and charged with inciting a riot. Someone might spot the map board as it whistled down, and would yell: "Incoming!", and that's when blood would drain and faces would whiten and panic and terror would ensue as runners sought desperately to escape and claw their way to freedom. But if someone really was interested in improving their O' skills, they might do well to study Kent. For my money, Kent Olsson was the best of anyone for "racing when it counted." posted by Michael | 1:05 PM 
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