okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Sunday, March 28, 2004
A training idea
Some years ago I ran a few local events with an extra map. In the back of my map case I carried a map from a race several years old (and from a different area) and did some on-the-run map study. For example, at a local event on one of the Clinton Lake areas I carried a map from a Swedish 5-days a few years earlier.
As I orienteered each leg on the local O' event, I'd flip the map over and "armchair" map read a leg from the other race.
The idea was to add some additional stress to a local event on a map I'd run on many times.
I'm not sure if it was a good way to train. It definitely added some additional stress. Flipping back and forth from map to map and from "armchair" thinking to navigating was a bit odd.
posted by Michael |
8:24 PM