Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Saturday, December 23, 2006 A few technique training ideasIf I were retired, I'd start most days the way I started today. I'd eat a bit of oatmeal for breakfast, brew some coffee, and sit in front of the computer for a few minutes looking at orienteering web pages.This morning, I was looking at HOK Bloggen, a very nicely done Norwegian O' page. As best I can tell, the page is designed to provide information to help the club's runners get info about technique training session and get the most out of those sessions. Lots of the technique training ideas are about "traffic light orienteering." The basic idea is that you run at green, yellow or red pace depending on the demands of the orienteering. Running on a trail in the middle of a leg is typically "green" while running in the last bit from a trail to the control is typically "red." The map below shows an example with the colors drawn in.  This sort of training is pretty standards stuff. It works best in terrain with a lot of details that you can ignore for large parts of the leg. But, it works in more simple terrain, too. In my home terrain, you can often go "green" for the entire leg, including taking the control. That can make the transition from home terrain to east coast terrain tricky for me. I often do some traffic light training where I force myself to plan some changes (green-red, green-yellow-green-red), and then make those changes even if the terrain doesn't really demand those changes. I try to build in the way of thinking and the discipline to change pace. Getting back to HOK Bloggen, as I came across a couple of variations on traffic light training that I'd never tried before. Both of these sound like something worth, for example, using at a training camp: 1. Two runners go together, taking turns leading a leg. Every time the leader reaches a point where they'd change color, they have to say that they're entering a new color. The leader has to have a plan for the leg before they leave the control. 2. Make the map available to the runners before the training so they can draw in their routes (using colored pens to indicate which sections are green, yellow or red) before the training. After the training, compare the plan with how it went. Back to okansas.blogspot.com. posted by Michael | 10:00 AM 
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