Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Wednesday, July 26, 2006 Looking on the bright sideI'm a fan of the Kansas City Royals. That can be tough. The team is bad. And they've been bad for years. It is easy to get down about the team and the team's future.But, Kansas City has a really good sports writer named Joe Posnanski. In today's paper Posnanski wrote an article where he looked at the Royal's strengths. Here is a little bit of what he wrote: You ask: What are the Royals’ strengths? Well, for one, the Royals have a lousy record. Obviously, that would not seem a strong point but it depends how you look at it. You can read the whole article on the Kansas City Star web page. What does this have to do with orienteering? Posnanski's article inspired me to think about the strengths of U.S. orienteering. We've got a pretty dismal record in World Champs, but that doesn't mean we don't have some strengths as an O' nation. While I was jogging tonight, I put together a little list of some of those strengths. For example, an obvious strength is that we've got great terrain for orienteering. We've got huge varieties of terrain and a lot of it is really interesting (places like Southern Michigan and the Hudson Valley on New York are a couple of examples). I easily came up with 5 strengths. I won't list them. That's not the point. The point is that it is an interesting exercise. Pick something that seems like it might not be the best situation, then take a slightly different view and think about the strengths of the situation. posted by Michael | 9:29 PM 
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