Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Thursday, March 11, 2004 Route choice trainingA couple of days ago Randy at mapsurfer.com wrote:One thing I've noticed about O is that you can train running, and you can train navigation, but how do you train route choice? For starters, what are you trying to do by training route choice? It seems like want to do a few things: 1. Look at the map and see the options. 2. Recognize the features of different routes (by features I mean things like thickness of the forest, climb, running surface...anything that would change your running speed). 3. Make rational decisions without spending too much time weighing the options (keeping in mind that the rational decision might not be the fastest, e.g. the best choice might be to take a trail route that isn't fastest, but is safe and lets you avoid a big hill). You can train all of those things by looking at maps. I like looking at maps with someone's routes drawn in and look for other ways to run the leg (practicing the first item in my list above). Then I compare the route I picked with the route drawn in (which is getting at the second item). Finally, I decide if I like my route or the drawn route and think about why (getting at the third item). SDD And for something completely different, check out some of the music from a Swedish O' band called SDD. You can check out SDD's web page to find out about the band and listen to some mp3 files. I think the song Do You Know How It Feels was IFK Lidingo's Jukola song last year. posted by Michael | 8:39 PM 
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