okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
Z is for zoooooom
Ever had an orienteer pass you in the forest so fast that they just zoooooomed by?
I can think of three times an orienteer zoomed by me.
1. I was moving down a gentle hill through some thick forest at Fahnstock Park in New York when Jorgen Martensson went by. I heard Jorgen crashing through the forest behind me. Zoom. He went by at a pace I couldn't have held for a hundred meters.
2. I was running through a flat section of forest just outside Stockholm at a training camp. The forest was a open but a bit junky. The footing was rough because of lots of cuttings from forestry work. I looked over my shoulder and saw Lars Palmquist coming up behind me. While I seemed to be stumbling and struggline, Palmquist looked like he was somehow floating above the cuttings. He went by, I took a few steps, I fell down. I looked up, he was floating away. Weird.
3. I was running down a steep hill through a felled area. Rough terrain. I took it careful, worrying about getting hurt. To my left a runner -- no idea who it was -- went storming down the hill as if it was smooth grass. I walked the rest of the felled area.
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