okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
Word from Japan
A bunch of top orienteers have been training and racing in Japan and are just returning home. Two of them -- Jorgen Rostrup and Kalle Dalin -- wrote a bit about their experiences on their web pages.
Rostrup felt the terrain was simpler than he'd expected beforehand. He found reading the contours and making route choices easier than expected.
Dalin wrote that you had to concentrate the whole time, keeping track of the spurs and reentrants. Making a map reading mistake could cost you 5 contours of climb.
I wouldn't call Rostrup and Dalin's comments incompatible. But it is interesting that Rostrup seems to have found the orienteering easy while Dalin seems to be noticing the difficulties. Since they are both describing the same thing, I'd guess the differences reflect different mentalities.
Speaking of Japan, check out the first English translation of Bjornar Valstad and Hanne Staff's series on orienteering in Japan.
posted by Michael |
7:50 PM
