Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Wednesday, December 08, 2004 Some notes from The TrotI ran with a group of orienteers for the first 14 or 15 controls at The Trot last weekend. Here are a few observations from that experience:1. It seemed like there were big differences in abilities to read the map on the run. I bet most of us could gain some time by becoming better at reading on the run. Some people could gain a whole lot. 2. Running at an angle up or down a hillside is tough. It is easier to run perpendicular to the contours. I don't think it is physically tough to run at an angle, it is just that you have a tendency to go straight up or straight down even if you need to run at an angle. 3. It would have been useful to be able to throw in a quick burst of speed. I train to run a fairly steady pace. But running at a steady pace makes it hard to get away from a pack. Maybe I'll do something about that before next year's Trot. 4. Falling down hurts. As I get older it seems to hurt more. It also seems to take longer to recover. I spent some time on a bicycle trainer tonight and the shoulder I hurt at The Trot was still sore. 5. There are big differences in orienteers speed in the last 50 meters before a control. One reason is that people don't look ahead far enough. I recall a couple of controls where people ahead of me were slowing down to read the map when I (a good 25 meters behind them) could see the flag. posted by Michael | 8:48 PM 
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