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Tuesday, March 16, 2004
Map study update
A couple of weeks ago I began another map study experiment -- 30 minutes a day through next weekend's Hawn A-meet. How is it going so far?
I haven't met my goal of 30 minutes a day. Last week was especially bad. Monday I didn't look at an O' map all day. I only met my 30 minute goal one day last week. This week is going better. In addition to 30 minutes a day of map study, I've done a fair amount of in-the-terrain map reading, too. Last weekend I did 6:15 of O' and the weekend before I did about 2:30.
Today I noticed that I was "seeing" a map as I look at the terrain. When I was running I pictured the contours, trails, vegetation, etc. I did this without thinking about it. When I've done a lot of fieldchecking the same thing happens. The last time I experimented with doing a lot of map study the same thing happened. I think it is a good sign.
I've also had fun looking at some very interesting maps. Today at lunch I studied the courses from one of the recent Park World Tour races in Italy. Check out the map and course.
The Italian park race reminded me of the corn maze O' race Fritz organized a few years ago. Check out the corn maze map and course.
posted by Michael |
7:46 PM
