okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Wednesday, May 19, 2004
A couple of quick notes
Climbing and descending
I downloaded a software update for my hrm that calculates the portion of a run that is uphill, downhill or flat. Here is the percent of time I spent climbing or descending:
Day 1 at HVO last weekend:
23 percent climbing
22 percent descending
Day 2 at HVO last weekend:
22 percent climbing
20 percent descending
Yesterday's run on the way home from work:
24 percent climbing
21 percent descending
I was surprised that the percent of my time spent climbing on day 1 and day 2 last weekend are nearly the same. The first day felt like a lot more climb. Maybe it was just more concentrated.
I suppose that if I was better at running downhill the difference between percent climbing and percent descending would be bigger.
Cool web page
Check out www.co-news.com. Co-news.com is a French O' web page. I can't read French, but it looks like a good page. I've learned that circuit means course and cartes means map. Even if you can't read French, you can poke around the links and find some cool maps. For example:
