Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Monday, December 01, 2003 Some interesting thoughts from GarderudAnders Garderud trains the Norwegian national O' team. He's also been a good orienteer and won the Olympic gold in the steeple chase. He's a good athlete who knows a lot about training and about orienteering.Garderud spoke at a O' trainer conference reported on by O-Nett. You have to run a lot, have continuity in what you're doing, in other words avoid injuries that force you to take breaks from training. Take a long-term view. Garderud also talked about people who'd meant a lot for his athletic development. One of them was a Norwegian orienteer named Magne Lystad. In 1967, Garderud wrote a letter to Lystad and Lystad took the time to write back to him. Lystad wrote about how Norwegian orienteers had made mistakes in their training. I thought a few things about this story were interesting: I find it interesting that an Olympic champion would refer to something so seemingly insignificant -- a letter with a bit of advice written to a 20 year old runner. It makes me wonder whether the letter really made a difference. If Lystad hadn't replied, or replied with different advice, would Garderud have become a great athlete? I also find it interesting that Garderud talks about the importance of avoiding injury. We (i.e. people who are interested in training) often think about hours per week or maybe hours per year. But, I think Garderud is emphasizing thinking in a much longer time frame. Garderud is known for saying the formula to success is 2x7x52x10 (train twice a day, seven days a week, 52 weeks a year for 10 years). If you looked at how much people train over a really long period of time -- say ten years -- what sort of volumes do you get? I'm not really sure how much training I've done over the last ten years. I don't think I could find all my old training records to figure it out, but I suppose I could make an educated guess. Finally, I wondered -- who is Magne Lystad? I recognize the name. I've heard it before. But I don't really know anything about him. A quick google search and I found out he has been a very good orienteer. Before the European and World Champs, the Nordic Champs must have been the top race. Lystad's results: 1957 he won, 1959 he won, 1961 he was 3rd, and 1965 he was 3rd. posted by Michael | 8:28 PM 
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