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Thursday, October 05, 2006
If I were a virtual orienteer
Before I forget, the next planned update to this page will be on Monday, October 9. I'm going to the North American Champs and don't plan to take a computer with me.
Before I left, I also went to Omanager and entered my teams for this weekends virtual relay race. In Omanager, each of your runners has an age and 12 characteristics that determine how they respond to training and how they race.
If I were a virtual orienteer, going into this weekend's races, I'd look like this (scored on a scale of 0-17):
Age: 42 Running in the forest: 6 (not enough running in the terrain for this number to be better). Running on roads: 8 Running hills: 7 (not bad and going in the right direction...but the terrain for the races this weekend isn't hilly, so it doesn't really matter much). Stamina: 8 Pace: 7 Form: 6 Day orienteering: 8 (might give myself a 9 for the sprint) Night orienteering: 6 (not that it matters, there are no night races this weekend) Orienteering experience: 13 (finally, being old pays off!) Motivation: 11 Injury form: 10 (higher is better, but I'm still feeling a turned ankle from the sprint finals and will run with an Active Ankle this weekend). Comfort: 12
Looking forward to the races, I'd have to say two things:
"Not ready for a great performance, but should be able to manage a decent set of races"
