Occassional thoughts about orienteering
|
|
| okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering |
|
|
Monday, December 08, 2003 What should I write today?I write something almost everyday. Some days it is easy. Some days I can't think of what to write. Sometimes when that happens I poke around the internet looking at orienteering pages.Oystein Sorenson Today I spent some time looking at Oystein Sorensen's page. Sorensen is a top Norwegian orienteer. He's 18 years old. Here are a few tidbits from spending a few minutes looking at his web page: Sorenson spent November evaluating his season and planning his winter training. For the winter, the plan looks like this: 2-3 hard session each week (intervals/distance) - not so hard that it takes a lot of time to recover. Lots of long session, mostly running, but also some on the cycle trainer and on skis. Strength training for about 2 hours a week (3-4 sessions). Some "spenst" training (2-3 times a week).* Training camps in snow-free terrain from January and on. Gradual increase in the amount of high intensity training throughout the period. About 1 hour of stretching a week. Average around 70 hours of training per month. I've got a couple of thoughts about Sorenson's training. First, I think it is great to see someone thinking about their plan, writing it down and putting in out for the whole world to see. Second, I don't see anything unusual about his plan. It looks sound. Third, 70 hours a month is a lot of training. To reach 70 hours a month, you need to average 2:20 a day. That works out to 16:20 a week. That is a lot. It'll be a very good base to build on. * Spenst means something like elastic/stretchy in English. Spenst training is training explosive strength, doing things like jumping exercises. It is a lot easier to do when you're 18 than when your older! Sorenson also has a nice collection of maps from races and training. What about Swedes? It strikes me that a lot of Norwegian orienteers keep their training and maps on the web while far fewer Swedes do. Why is that? Has keeping an O' page become fashionable for Norwegians while it isn't for Swedes? Maybe there are lots of Swedish pages I just haven't found them? posted by Michael | 8:19 PM 
Comments:
Post a Comment
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
||||
|
|||||
