okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Thursday, May 06, 2004
Reading the map
Both Bjornar Valstad and Pasi Ikonen have been writing about WOC training camps in Sweden. Both have commented on reading the maps.
Pasi wrote:
My orienteering in here has become safer and one reason is that I have used magnifying glass when the scale is 1:15000.
Bjornar wrote:
Sweden has a different map-culture than we normally see in Norway or in other parts of the worlds. It is a culture that we've got to learn if we're going to succeed. The focus on Swedish maps is much more on the small details than on the runnability or terrain shape....Reading the maps is difficult and almost all of the runners use magnifiers on the 1:15,000 maps...
I'm a big fan of magnifiers. I started using one in 2001 and almost always carry it. In some terrain and on some maps I don't use it much. But, on detailed terrain or when the maps are not printed very well I use it a lot.
More Tio Mila video
I found another Tio Mila video on the internet. Go to www.pyramis.se, click on "web-TV" then "idrottsfilmer" then "10-Mila i Timmergatan." The film is a good 20 minutes and follows the race from start to finish.
In both of the Tio Mila films I've seen I noticed that Jarkko Houvila, the Halden runner who put Halden out of touch for the chasing teams, ran in black rather than the normal red-white-blue Halden colors. Was to be hard to see and recognize?
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