Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Saturday, May 08, 2004 Tom's trainingHere is another bit from Tom Hollowell...Relative to my own aspirations I don't think I have had a more enjoyable time orienteering ever. Changing jobs 3 years ago was probably the best move I have ever made. The career carousel at Emerson Electric was hard to jump off, but I didn't realize until afterwards how much positive energy it drained out of me. Unfortunately, I lost about 10 years of good training effort and I have realized you just can't build that back up again once you've passed 40. I really started training hard in October 2002 and from there it has just kind of continued. I seem to be able to set up a new goal and so far have met them all. First was Vasaloppet 2003, then was getting to the A-final at the WMOC last year in Norway, then was getting a medal in our district championships (ended up with 2 actually) and winning a club championship* (won the Long-O), then it started all over with Vasaloppet 2004. I have focused on just enjoying the effort of training and competing and every once in a while I have a really good day and surprise both myself and my surroundings. Current longer-term goal is to train hard until I turn 45 (2 more years) and see if I can get up to the top echelons of the class then. We'll see how it turns out. Tom touches on a few things that I'd guess often go hand-in-hand with good orienteering: 1. Having fun. 2. Reducing work (or school) stress. 3. Having some clear goals. 4. Enjoying the effort of training. 5. Training hard. 1, 2 and 3 all make it easier to do 4 and 5. If you're having fun, not stressed and working toward some meaningful goals, then training hard is a lot easier. Training well pays off. You could probably even generalize and say that anything you do to improve 1, 2 and 3 will pay off. If you're not having fun, figure out a way to have fun (for me this usually means doing lots of technique training and training in different places). If work is stressful, figure out a way to reduce the stress. If you don't have goals, set some. Take a look at Tom's training on Attackpoint to get an idea of how he specifically trains. At this point, Tom only has about a month of his training recorded at Attackpoint. But, you can get an idea of how much technique training he's doing. posted by Michael | 7:57 PM 
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