Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Thursday, April 08, 2004 Some interesting readingA couple of articles worth checking out:US Ski Team report Pete Vordenberg wrote a review of the U.S. cross country ski team's year. The article describes a bit of the team's planning and training. It is worth a look. I've always thought it'd be worthwhile for the U.S. O' team to study other similar sports to learn what they do. There are probably some lessons that the cross country ski team could pass on to the O' team (maybe even some lessons the O' team could pass on to the ski team). Interview with Simone A Swedish paper interviewed Simone Luder-Niggli. Luder-Niggli lives in Sweden now as she prepares for this year's world champs. I translated a bit of the interview: "The terrain in Sweden is entirely different than the terrain in Switzerland. It is a lot softer here, which makes it harder to run." If I were an American training for this year's world champs, I'd be trying to find a good way to prepare for the soft, lumpy footing in Sweden. I'm not exactly sure how best to do that. Getting to Sweden as soon as possible is probably the best solution. The only terrain in the U.S. that I've run in that felt like Sweden is in Alaska. I suspect that running a lot of hills would build strength in a way that would help you manage the soft Swedish terrain (even though the WOC areas are not at all hilly). Running in some of the rocky areas in the U.S. -- like Harriman -- might be reasonable. Although the footing in Harriman is quite different from the footing in Sweden. She thinks that training and especially the competition is better in Sweden than in Switzerland. She runs in the same club as Swedish WOC hope Jenny Johansson "It means a lot to train with someone of the same class. We learn from each other." posted by Michael | 12:57 PM 
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