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Monday, February 05, 2007

Sprint training camp

 

The sprint orienteering training camp in Vancouver looks like a lot of fun.

Thinking about a sprint training camp got me day dreaming...what would the perfect location for a sprint training camp be? You'd look for somewhere with plenty of variety - a couple of college campuses and some nearby forests. You'd look for someplace that wasn't so big that a camp would involve a lot of time driving around from map to map. You'd look for a place that'd be interesting and convenient to visit.

How about a road-trip camp? Spend a weekend traveling from point-to-point, map-to-map, stopping to run sprint courses along the way. You could, for example, start in Lawrence, running on the KU Campus. Travel to Kansas City and race around Shawnee Mission Park (mostly forest). Then drive a couple of hours to Columbia (another campus event and a forest race at one of the parks near the city). The next day, drive to St Louis, with a stop at Cuivre River and a final race at Forest Park.

More Google Earth Orienteering

Tom ran this course a week or so ago:




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posted by Michael | 9:11 PM

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Comments:
An Orienteering roadtrip is definitely something that I have on my list of things to do. I wonder how many people I could get to offer to set courses and put me up for a night or two if I posted on AP. I bet you could almost get across the country without having to drive more than a 600-mile stretch between stops. Ok, I guess that isn't that great, but definitely doable. Then do the Canadians on the way back :)
 
In Finland has been arranged this kind of happening by Hankasalmi's orienteering high school.
http://www.hankasalmi.fi/suunnistuslukio/suurajot/
Sorry only in finnish

There is four member team, one car and 12 starts. 1-4 members are running each of starts. By car teams move to starts which can be 10-20km from each others.
There is also some photos about this http://www.kolumbus.fi/jyrki.saarivaara/suurajot06/
 
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