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Sunday, June 06, 2004
5 quick notes from TJOC
I just got back from the Texas Junior O' Camp. Here are five quick impressions from TJOC:
1. The organizers do a huge amount of work and put together a great week of training. I've now been to four TJOCs and they get better each year.
2. If I could give each of the kids one bit of advice it'd probably be -- learn to make the legs as simple as possible. Don't worry about picking the route that is fastest if executed perfectly. Pick the route that is easiest (safest) and then execute it. Learn to orienteer cleanly while running hard, then start picking tougher routes.
3. While the camp is a blast, the terrain isn't. The area is rocky. Some of the vegetation is thick. Some of the vegetation is unpleasant (I pulled a bunch of cactus thorns out of my knee on the second day I was there).
4. The food was top-notch. Thursday night's menu featured steak and lobster!
5. One of my rules-of-thumb is that all of the volunteer work I do for O' is at the local level. I figure I can do more (and enjoy it more) if I'm helping Orienteer Kansas. But, TJOC isn't local. So, I guess I'm a bit of a hypocrite. Oh well. I can re-write my rule to -- I only volunteer at the local level, except for TJOC.
posted by Michael |
6:15 PM
