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Tuesday, May 18, 2004
Some technique training ideas from Swedish WOC camp
The recent Swedish WOC training camp used a couple of technique training sessions that I thought sounded interesting. (I got the descriptions from Johan Modig's report on the camp).
Long leg O'
Each course covers about three kilometers with one long leg. Three runners are in each group and the runners start 30 seconds apart. At the WOC camp (which was focusing on the classic distance event), they ran four of these 3 km courses.
This sounds like a really tough training session because you'd end up pushing quite hard.
For this session, the runners got maps with contours only AND some of the distinct contour details removed. Before the training, you got to draw in the details from the real map that you thought you'd need. This forced you to draw only the features you really needed, you had to simplify the map.
Modig wrote, "you can save a lot of time on the maps these days by disregarding unimportant details and only reading the clearest and biggest features."
Ivarsson?
I think Johan Ivarsson was responsible for the technique training sessions at the WOC camp. So, I suppose these two exercises are ideas Ivarsson thinks are useful (and Ivarsson is certainly someone who is worth paying attention to).
posted by Michael |
7:54 PM
