okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Tuesday, May 04, 2004
Some pre-WOC relay training
Fredrik Lowegren wrote a report from the Norwegian WOC training camp and described part of the Norwegian relay training. Here is a bit of What Lowegren wrote:
Under the direction of Kjell Puck (the man behind Halden's Tio-Mila dominance), the Norwegians are putting together a relay group in their national team. I was invited to their training on Thursday. It was the last session before the relay group would be cut down to five runners, so you can see it was an important session.
At the exchange, Bjornar Valstad was told he'd go out in the lead, and just before he started he was told that the lead ahead of Sweden was just 50 seconds at the warning control [i.e. the control near the end of each course where in coming runners are announced]. My role was to try to catch Bjornar and also to stay ahead of the other Norwegian teams.
This way of training -- setting up situations to practice -- seems like a good idea.
I think a lot of runners go over possible scenarios mentally. I do. But, I doubt as many do that when they are doing technique training.
As an aside, it is interesting that Lowegren was invited to go to the Norwegian WOC camp, but he wasn't invited to the Swedish WOC camp that begins this weekend.
posted by Michael |
7:17 PM
