Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Monday, October 10, 2005 "The town was basically a maze"If you haven't already seen it, you've got to check out Thierry Gueorgiou's latest "Follow Me" video. He shows a leg of the world cup sprint race in Italy. It is fantastic.The terrain really looks challenging. How would you prepare for a race in that sort of terrain? Karen Williams ran the race and here is a bit of what she wrote about it: It was intense...particularly in the rain. I was somewhat disappointed with the run because of mistakes, but at the same time, it was really fun and something really unique. Randy and I were saying that it is definitely something that you could not train for in the US simply because we have nothing like it! But we can train running stairs, which I would have benefited from!! I haven't been in the sprint terrain and I've only spent a few minutes looking at the maps, but I've got to think that even though the terrain is "really unique" we could train for something like this in the U.S. But it takes some imagination. First, we can train for the basic physical demands -- running up and down a lot of paved stairways, for example. Second, we can train the basic sprint skills -- things like going to the correct next control, being cool under pressure, etc. What about the technical demands of orienteering in terrain that Randy decribed, "The town was basically a maze"? How about orienteeing in a maze? Check out the map from a race Fritz set up a few years ago in a corn maze just outside of Lawrence. 
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