Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Friday, January 12, 2007 Reading about Liisa VeijalainenWatching some of those Finnish O' videos reminded me of a book I've got sitting on my shelf about Liisa Veijalainen. Veijalainen won a WOC in 1976 and took 2nd in 1978 and 1979. The book is a Swedish translation of a book she and her husband wrote.I poked around in the book a bit, looking at the maps and the photos. One thing that caught my eye was how little she trained. For the years 1972 through 1977 she had between 1252 and 3055 kilometers a year. That isn't much. It is tempting to conclude that the level of competition must have been a lot lower in the late 1970s that it is now. But, I really don't know. I also came across an interesting little story about expectations. Here's the story (paraphrased, not translated): An orienteer and his coach decided that the coach would give a special signal at the press control to let the runner know how it was going. But it turned out that the coach didn't make it to the press control. The runner came to the control and started looking around for the coach rather than looking at the next leg. He made a mistake. He'd expected the coach to be there - the coach wasn't and that must have caused the stress. It has been many years since I read the book. It looks interesting - might be worth re-reading. Back to okansas.blogspot.com. posted by Michael | 8:35 PM 
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I have Rastilta Rastille in Russian, and it's one of the books that motivated me to start training hard some years ago. Five stars for this one!
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Your reflection on the level of competition in the 70-ies may be correct. I think a great step forwards came with Annichen Kringstad and the way she trained.
She often trained with men and developed her running capacity so much that she had several minutes advantage on a course - which subesquently allowed her to make more mistakes without losing the race (a bit like Björndalen in the biathlon...). Many women orienteers today are better prepared physically and have also developed their O techniques. # posted by
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But what about the Men's course at O-Ringen last year? When the nowaday stars weren't able to beat Morten Berglia's time?
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