Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Friday, September 16, 2005 The wrong clothes?!I take a look at a couple of Swedish O' web pages most days. A topic that comes up over-and-over again in discussion is clothing. A photo will show up of an orienteer finishing a race, and you'll notice (if you care to look) that there is a little gap between the top of the socks and the bottom of the O' pants. This is a violation of the full-body-cover rule in Sweden.The history behind the clothing rules is interesting. As I understand it, there was an outbreak of hepatiti among orienteers decades ago. The theory was that orienteers, running in shorts, were spreading hepatitis. Sweden put in a rule that prohibited you from running without full-body-cover. I know a little bit about epidemiology, but not enough to know if the theory makes any sense. I do know that I'm not worried about running races where other competitors have a gap between their socks and their O' pants. I was thinking about all of this when I read a report from the Swedish middle distance champs qualifying race where my old clubmate, Tina Junegaard, was apparently accused of wearing the wrong clothes ("felaktiga kladsel"). The jury met to consider Tina's case, but didn't disqualify her. Here in the U.S. the clothing debates seem to center on how ridiculous looking most O' clothing is. Maybe someone should protest this O' outfit for ridiculous color combo (note that the short pants would be a clear violation in Sweden). More on Micro O' One of the complaints about micro O' is that it is too slow -- almost like trail O' -- rather than a running race. Take a look at Mats Troeng's heart rate curve from a race with a mirco O' section. It doesn't look like Troeng's effort changed with the micro O' section (I'll leave it to you to guess what part of the curve is the micro O'). posted by Michael | 8:22 PM 
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