Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007 Swedish club training cultureBoris wrote:As I am a member of OK Linne's "training group", I am supposed to occasionally go to meetings where we discuss and plan club training for the next few months. Yesterday was my first such meeting, and it was an interesting experience. It was interesting that the training schedule is decided by consensus, not really according to any training plan or anything written up by a coach but, more or less, according to the desires of the person "responsible" for a given week. Of course, there is a framework within which we make these decisions: in the spring, tuesdays are usually intervals and thursdays technique trainings. Most weekends have races already scheduled, and so on. I made two suggestions, both of which were adopted: one was to have a couple of interval sessions on the track (seems like a no-brainer) and the other was to continue our Wednesday mini-races past Tiomila (before, they used to be replaced by circuit training) and all the way till Jukola. This was approved on a bi-weekly basis. While it was undoubtedly very cool for me to participate in such a meeting and get to help plan my club's training, it also struck me as very strange that a club as large and successful as OK Linne relies on a group of amateurs, selected based on volunteering and not on any qualifications, to plan the whole season's training. How does this work in other Scandinavian clubs? I thought Boris' comments were interesting. A few disjointed thoughts: Boris' experience is similar to mine. I ran for three clubs in Sweden and my impression was that each had a different template (what Boris calls a framework) for training. Each seemed fairly set in their template. I didn't sense a lot of innovation. That's not unique to Swedish O' clubs. It's pretty much par for the course among organizations. I think there is a strong "O' club training culture" among Swedish clubs. I can't quite put my finger on exactly what it is, but I suspect it is pretty important for how well the clubs function. The different clubs develop different cultures, which then appeal to different types of orienteers. A club might focus more on developing juniors, or competing at big relays, or having a nice environment for post-training socializing. Different focus would lead to different training templates. Well, those aren't very clear or well thought out ideas...I guess that reflects some fuzzy thinking on my part. It is an interesting topic. Scandinavian Culture I picked up a collection of Icelandic sagas a week or two ago. I'm slowly working my way through the brick-sized book. I figure that if I'm going to visit Iceland, I'll take a bit of time to read some of the sagas. I'm in the middle of Egil's Saga. It is quite interesting to read about the Viking culture. No study of Scandinavian culture would be complete without spending some time following the Eurovision contest. Sweden's entry is....well...I'll let you decide yourself: Back to okansas.blogspot.com. posted by Michael | 8:46 PM 
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As an Eurovision contest expert I can tell you this will most likely be a top 3 song and it may even win. Retro glam rock/pop band for Eurovision is a very good pick by Swedes. Finland will give full points. I am not joking, just wait and see - this is Eurovision.
-Jagge- # posted by
 : 8:59 AM
Sweden's entry is....well...
...definitely not worth listening to. There were a few others that were better - not necessarily very good, but better. But anyway - considering how the Swedish juries voted - unfortunately I think Jagge may be right. # posted by
: 1:39 PM
Boris, but I don't think the point of the Eurovision song contest is to have good music. It is more like pro wrestling - a spectacle. When I heard the Swedish entry, I have to say that I immediately thought this song would have a good chance. It has that annoying, yet catchy, sound that seems to do well.
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