okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Thursday, December 01, 2005
More about Bostrom in the U.S.
A newspaper from Finland has an article about Maarten Bostrom's running in Arizona. If you can read Swedish, take a look at the article.
I've translated a few sentences from the article:
"The training [for cross country running] is entirely different here than in Finland where I usually trained alone. Here I often run with others, sometimes up to 30 runners. I always have someone pushing me in the tough sessions." "My next marathon will probably be in the fall of 2007 or spring of 2008, preparing for the Olympics in Peking."
After his running training in the Rocky Mountains, Bostrom will try to win a world championship in orienteering, for example in Denmark next year or in Ukraine the following year.
But if he wants to train for orienteering around Flagstaff, he'll have to draw a map first, which he is capable of doing. But if he does that he'll know the terrain and the idea of orienteering "in unknown areas" will disappear.
I've never been to Flagstaff, but it is one of those places that sounds like it'd be a good place to live. The Observatory Mesa area -- just west of town -- looks like it might make for fun orienteering.
I think Mook spent some time in Flagstaff (Maybe looking for ESPs from the Observatory Mesa?).
posted by Michael |
7:31 PM
