okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Monday, June 12, 2006
Training in Uppsala
Here is the map I trained on in Uppsala on Saturday. The map is a really small area with lots of little details, mapped at 1:1500 with a 1 meter contour interval. It shows a lot of detail.
The video shows me running (slowly!) through a tricky section of the course. You'll see me go to points 5, 6 and 7. I didn't have controls, but you can see me touch the ground at each control location (and you can probably see me punch the split time on my watch). Hammer shot the video from the hill just south of the map clip above.
Orienteering on this super-detailed, small scale map, was really fun. I had to really concentrate to orienteer well. Losing contact with the map was costly.
When I was done, Hammer and Emma spent some time walking around on the map checking out different features.
