okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Monday, February 02, 2004
T is for team feeling
Poking around my basement a few weeks ago I came across an old US Team Newsletter where Ron Pontius wrote an article analyzing his improving results. Here is his summary:
So what conclusions can I draw from all of this [analysis]? I think three major points can be made. (1) I lost weight; (2) I started to specifically train on maps; and (3) I had an enthusiastic club to train with on a regular basis. Of these three, although all of them are important, which one do I feel was the most important? Definitely the last one. Without the team atmosphere, I probably would not have had the motivation to do the first two nor the experience to do #2. The key to it all was not peer pressure or anything of the sort, but just that we had a lot of fun doing it while looking towards some specific goals....
posted by Michael |
7:46 PM
