Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Sunday, December 26, 2004 A look at Anders Tiltnes' trainingI spent some time with my questions for looking at training and Anders Tiltnes' summary of his training for the 2003 season.I don't know much about Tiltnes. I've looked at his home page a couple of times, mostly looking at maps. I know he is a junior (might be a first year senior this season?). I know he's run the JWOC. That's about it. In answering the questions, I was looking at a summary for a year. Tiltnes' summary shows his weekly training (broken down by intensity), his O' technique training, and short comments about each week. Tiltnes' training - easiest to answer Training volume? even year round or lots of up-and-down? If the volume is uneven, is it because of periodization or something else? Tiltnes trained 412:40, including strength and "beveglighet" (which I think means flexibility). That works out to an average of about 7:45/week. Tiltnes' year followed a very clear pattern. He built a base with higher volume, lower intensity and very little O' technique work. That went on for about 22 weeks. 15 of those 22 weeks included more than his average weekly volume. Tiltnes trained with less intensity during those 22 weeks -- only 4 of the 22 weeks have more than the average weekly amount of high intensity training (and 3 of those were in the last 5 weeks of the 22 week period). After building a base, he does more technique, more high intensity and lower volume. To my eye it looks like Tiltnes includes shorter weeks when he feels he's getting a bit worn (or when he gets sick). So you'll see patterns of weekly training like this: 7:50, 11:35 then 6:30. Tiltnes does a lot of high intensity training. He averaged about 1:15 of high intensity training/week. That seems, to me, like a lot. He's young, which probably makes it easier to recover from those hard sessions. Cross training ? does the orienteer use other sports in training? Do they compete in other sports? Tiltnes does some skiing and cycling. He also does strength training. I think he competes at ski orienteering. But as far as I can tell his main sport is orienteering. O' technique ? Does the orienteer practice technique or do they get their technique through competitions? It looks to me like most of his technique training is races, training camps and some club training sessions. To me it doesn't look like he's doing huge amounts of technique training. He did 106:45 of technique (including races). That's a lot by North American standards. I'd guess it is more than most orienteers in Norway, but far from what some do. Injuries and illness ? Does the orienteer have problems with injuries and illness? I count 9 weeks where being sick affected Tiltnes. He started the year with sickness affecting two weeks. One week he notes he was sick, "too much to drink on new year's eve." I see one or two mentions of a knee. But, it doesn't look like Tiltnes has any real injury problems (another advantage to being so young?). Tiltnes' training - possible to answer, but easy to get wrong Does the orienteer have clear, known goals? I think so, but I'm not sure what those goals are. If he's run JWOCs, I'd guess his goals is to make the Norwegian JWOC team and have good races. Running for a Scandinavian club probably makes Tio Mila and Jukola important goals. Just guessing, I'd think he has long term ambitions to make the senior team and run a WOC. Does the orienteer work with a coach? I don't know. He runs for a club -- Tyrving -- known for its juniors. I'd guess they've got some help from the club. If he's got an individual coach, I don't know about it. Does the orienteer's approach seem to be scientific and detail-oriented or more intuitive? I've decided I don't like this question. I need to come up with something better. What I'm trying to get at with this question is the difference between people who train largely by feeling versus those who train more by detailed plans. Lasse Hogedal talked about orienteers who follow the Columbus model versus those who follow the Titanic model. What about Tiltnes? I don't know. Looks like he has an idea what he wants to do, but I don't get a strong sense of the day-to-day thinking that goes on. Tiltnes' training - hard to answer, probably wrong Does an "attitude" come through? Does the orienteer come across as having a positive approach? Do they whine a lot? If I read his home page I might get an idea. But all I've done is look at his training summary. Actually, it is worth taking a look at an interview with Tiltnes (in English!) and drawing your own conclusions. Does the orienteer seem to be experimenting or following a template? Looks like he's following a template. What sort of background does the orienteer have? Do they make maps? Have the competed at a high level in another sport? Did they start at a young age? Have they lived in Europe? He lives in Norway. He's young and must have started relatively young. In his training summary he lists "synfaring" a couple of times. I think "synfaring" is field checking (but my Norwegian is a bit rough). Does anything seem striking or unusual? Tiltnes has a summary on his training page that shows his progression in training over the four years from 2000-2003. 2000: 273 hours of training, 253 sessions, 55 races. 2001: 291 hours of training, 261 sessions, 50 races. 2002: about 350 hours of training. 2003: 410 hours, 296 sessions. It looks like Tiltnes is taking a long-term approach. He's building his hours steadily but not doing anything really crazy (like trying to go straight from <300 hours/year to 500 or 600). It looks like Tiltnes is careful with his training. He takes plenty of days off (23 of the weeks have no more than 5 sessions/week). posted by Michael | 6:27 PM 
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