Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Sunday, September 03, 2006 Golf = orienteering = stock car racing?Some people have claimed that golf and orienteering are the same sport. I don't know, but I've nearly finished reading my first golf book.A month or so ago I heard a radio interview with an author named Tom Coyne who just released Paper Tiger: An Obsessed Golfer's Quest to Play with the Pros. Coyne was a good, but not great, golfer who decided to spend a year as a full time golfer, trying to qualify for the professional tour. He moves to Florida, trains all the time, works with coaches, and competes. Reading the book makes you (or me, maybe) think about how fun it'd be to spend a year focusing purely on orienteering. As I've read the book, I begin to understand some of those parallels that lead people to believe that golf = orienteering. A golf course is a bit like an O' course, with legs to make your way through and booms to deal with. Both are concentration sports. Coyne describes a lot of the mental fights he goes through to try to hold his concentration, to learn how to keep his mind in the moment - to think about what he is doing instead of how he is doing. There are, of course, huge differences between the sports (but that's a subject for another day). You can get a sense of the book and the author by listening to the interview with Coyne from the NPR show Only a Game. Go to the June 24 show, click on the link to listen and go to about the 38 minute mark of the show. I'd write more, but the Nascar race is on TV and I've got to go sit in front of the TV. You know, car racing is really the same sport as orienteering...or something like that. posted by Michael | 8:09 PM 
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