okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering |
Monday, December 19, 2005 A couple of notesNew O' VideoPatrick put up a new O' video on his homepage. If you like the "follow me"-type of video, it is worth a look at Patrick's latest. Training course in Norway Oystein Kvaal Osterbo posted a training map with an interesting course. It looks like fun. Randy's analysis Randy wrote about his O' year: Well, back to the O. What should I write about this season? I'm a geek and keep stats, and this was the first season ever where my stats declined from the previous year. That sucks, but at least I was better than in 2003, putting in my second best season statistically. Why did things get worse? Burnout in the beginning of the year, random minor injuries and equipment failures, and I think a too much over-confidence and too much speedwork. I know there was a point where I was not concentrating enough, because I figured "I get it". But no matter how long you've been doing this, you always have to be at peak concentration, at least it seems that way for me. I suppose some people get to a point where they can do it automatically, but I found I could not, and my results were better when I knuckled down. I thought that last part was most interesting. "...no matter how long you've been doing this, you always have to be at peak concentration..." I'm sometimes amazed at how hard it is to orienteer. You can't quite coast. I guess most sports are like that, but in orienteering when you coast the price you pay is higher -- that is you make big booms. In some sports, say tennis or basketball, you could coast (in fact the best clearly do) without really having a big disaster. posted by Michael | 8:27 PM
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