okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Tuesday, October 05, 2004
Another big miss
When I was a kid I liked to watch baseball bloopers on "This Week in Baseball." Every week they'd show major league players dropping easy fly balls or blowing grounders. It was satisfying to see these guys playing like I did. Baseball is a sport where the absolute best can look like amateurs.
Orienteering is like that too.
Kim Fagerudd wrote about a big mistake he made.
If the Finnish Champs middle distance qualifying race had been a beginners course, I'd have flunked. An unexplainable mistake meant that I didn't make the final...
After a month of leg muscle problems it finally felt good before the middle champs....when I came out on the road [see the map and look at the route from 2 to 3] I completely forgot to read the map. I missed the trail junction, which was a little hid by the grass, but should have noticed that I'd run absolutely too far on the road. You just can't make that kind of mistake...I missed a spot in the final by 5 seconds.
Looking at Fageruud's mistake reminds me of watching Derek Jeter boot an easy grounder...except I hate the Yankees, so I'm glad to see Jeter make a mistake!
posted by Michael |
8:36 PM
