okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Thursday, March 06, 2008
More advice from a wise orienteer
I psych up my mind by doing the following:
(a) for all races I make note of my race errors. They now boil down to the following causes: (1) did not read the control description; (2) did not check my compass; (3) stopped concentrating.
(b) the week before the event during the training camp I am writing down race strategies each evening from that day's training. Each training has a lesson.
(c) Every night I review the list which looks something like this: (1) read control descriptions; (2) concentrate on the map; (3) orient the map all the time; (4) do not run faster than you know where you are on the map....(5) drink water at all stops; (6) ignore all singing birds and beautiful views...; (7) run like "hell" from the last control.
(4) and (2) are probably the ones to think about most in my opinion.
