okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
2 x Feet
It can be interesting to study splits and figure out how much faster you could have run a course. But it doesn't exactly give you the feeling of how much faster you could have run. Maybe you get a better feel for the difference when you run the course a second time. That's what Feet did at the Chicago sprint (see the course below)
He ran the 2.2 km sprint course in 10:26. Then after a bit of rest, re-ran it in 9:38. That's quite an improvement (especially given that he didn't make any big mistakes on his first run and the course doesn't feature difficult navigation). Feet wrote:
Saved 3-5 seconds on almost every leg, but lost 3 seconds at 8 (the leg after the hard control, but not actually that easy itself) and 1 second on the run-in (tired...). Not a fair comparandum to the above since I wasn't really navigating... but interesting to see the difference between pure running and navigating speeds.
