Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Thursday, January 01, 2004 Platt's training a looooong time agoMy basement is full of boxes. Now and then I open one of the boxes to see what is inside. Today I found a few old U.S. Team newsletters, one of which had a report from Mikell Platt on his training.Platt summarized his training for 1986 and described his physical training plan for 1987. In 1896, Platt did 506 hours of running (270 in the woods), 84 cycling and 23 skiing. In 1987, he planned 500 hours running (333 in the woods), 139 cycling and 33 skiing. He planned to emphasize doing some regular, harder running to improve his speed with goals of running 2 miles in 10:15 and 10 km in 33:30. Platt tracked his training in four-week "months" (so there are 13 a year). Here are his actual 1986 hours and planned 1987 hours by "month" 1 47 48 2 51 57 3 55 58 4 43 42 5 50 53 6 37 53 7 41 62 8 39 58 9 51 38 10 51 42 11 55 42 12 43 56 13 50 63 Platt noted that important races were in months 4, 9, 10 and 11. Comments on Platt's late-1980s training Platt trained more than most of us in the late 1980s (maybe more than any other U.S. orienteer). He also did a lot of running in the forest. I don't know if anyone who is on the U.S. Team now trains as much as Platt did. Having specific running goals was quite common among the U.S. team in the mid/late 1980s. Peter Gagarin was team coach and he was (and probably still is) a believer in the value of having some specific running goals. As team coach he encouraged all of us to set some goals for running races. Platt didn't mention anything about O' training in his report. I don't have any idea how much he was practicing orienteering. (Maybe he'll read this and enlighten us using the "comment" function!). Back in the late 1980s, I don't think Platt was doing much mapping. Looking at the volumes (which is all we can do because the article doesn't include any information about intensity of training), it seems to me like Platt kept a fairly even level of training throughout the year. I don't see big differences between the months. His plan for 1987 has a bit bigger difference than his actual 1986 did. I suspect that Platt might have been a little bit better off if he'd had a pattern that was a bit more like this: 50 70 50 35 60 70 60 35 35 35 35 40 40 (Adding these gives 615 hours compared to the 613 Platt actually did in 1986). Of course, it is quite presumptuous of me to criticize Platt's training given how little information I have about his training. But, what the heck... How did it go? I haven't gone back and looked at results from 1987, but I think Platt was probably disappointed in how he ran at the World Champs in France. I also know he came close, very close, to winning the U.S. Champs, finishing 2nd, I think. I don't really know about the rest of the season. posted by Michael | 3:26 PM 
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