Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Monday, April 12, 2004 Lowegren's last raceFredrik Lowegren wrote about his most recent race on his web page. Check out the map and his routes.I've translated a bit of Lowegren's report: My goal was to stay calm the whole time, but I felt unsure already ontheh way to the first control. When I came to the control I didn't have an idea of the next leg and instead of stopping and looking at it, I just ran off in the general direction. I went to the right to give myself a safe approach to the control by the big open marsh. But I was sloppy with my directiontowardd the control and ended up below it. After stopping to read the map at the vegetation boundary I quickly recognized my mistake.... To the 8th control I avoided going up over the tops of the hills and the cliffs. I saw them to my left and then went down in the reentrant. When I came to the control I caught up to Martin Johnsson who started two minutes before me. Maybe that is what made me lose concentration as I left the control. I went 45 degrees off anddespitee feeling uncertain I didn't stop and figure out what was going on. Instead I kept going and tried to figure it out afterwards. I finally realized I was south of the marshes. When I saw the long open marsh 100 meters south oftheh control I knew exactly where I was. From the split times I know that I lost 1:20 on the leg. If I'd stopped as soon as I recognized everything was right I'd have lost maybe 20-30 seconds.... The translation is a bit rough, but you get the idea -- Lowegren is make the same sort of orienteering mistakes that most of us make all the time. On the way to 2, he just ran in the right direction, then got sloppy. On the way to 8, he lost concentration when he saw someone else, ran the wrong direction, and didn't stop and minimize the loss of time. Lowegren still won the race, so he must have been moving pretty well (Grant Bluett was 2nd, almost a minute back). posted by Michael | 7:53 PM 
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