okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
A Beaufort Scale for Orienteering
It'd be nice to have a scale for grading your performance on an O' course. The idea is to have a simple method (valid and reliable) to grade your race without having to look at the results list or study splits. It would answer the question "how did it go today?"
There are lots of "scales" for easily measuring things that might otherwise be measured with fancy equipment. If you don't something to measure the wind speed, you can use the Beaufort Scale. If you don't have a heart rate monitor, you can use the Borg scale.
I'd like something similar for orienteering performance.
Maybe I could just adopt the Wong pain scale:
If I weren't so sleepy, I'd try to come up with something. But, I am sleepy.
