okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Sunday, August 22, 2004
Valstad's problems at the middle distance
Bjornar Valstad had a very good race until the very end of the Norwegian middle distance champs. I'm not up to translating his report, but I'll explain what he had to say.
Valstad had some recent trouble with mistakes in the last part of courses. The evening before the race, he spoke with a guy named Johan Kaggestad on the phone. They decided to "restart" the race in the last 1.5 km. To think of the last 1.5 km as a new race, one where he'd have to orienteer well to win.
When he came to the final small loop on the middle distance race, Valstad was thinking about restarting...instead of thinking about orienteering. Since he wasn't' thinking about what he was doing, he boomed and lost two minutes.
Check out the last little loop where Valstad lost two minutes (it looks like his two booms are on 13 and 14).
When I read Valstad's report, I recognized the name "Johan Kaggestad" but I couldn't remember who he was. Google to the rescue! Kaggestad worked with the runners Grete Waitz and Ingrid Kristiansen, which is probably where I recognized the name.
posted by Michael |
7:01 PM
