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Forest Circuits
One day a week I do circuits. This entails finding a creek bed or up and down area that is about 200 meters long one way. I jog out a course throug...
Miki Snell - compiled by peggy dickison
Track Intervals With Map
Map and Track: Do interval training on a track using about 30 sec rests.
Study and memorize the leg (attack point, catching feature, route) in
the ...
Jeff Saeger - compiled by peggy dickison
Follow-the-Leader, Relocation
This exercise may be done in pairs or groups. The leader starts running, reading the map, and after a few minutes stops near a distinct feature. Th...
Mass-Start Legs
Here is an exercise we did at the team training camp last year.
You set out controls in advance for a regular orienteering course of length 5-10k....
Line-O
This is an exercise you can do by yourself or with others. It doesn't require any preparation in the forest, you just draw some meandering line on y...
Fox & The Hound
Little O-Training game, here is how you do it. get some small pieces of paper, which are multi colored. Make sure there is enough of one color per ...
Mike Minium
Pyramid with map
This is interval run when you increase and decrease interval length gradually during the training. You may do something like 400m@95%+800m@90%+1600m@...
Sergey Velichko
Alternating 1/2s
This involves running 1/2 mile (800 m) intrevals at ~90% and alternating with less intensity 1/2 mile (800 m) at ~75%. You may compliment this with m...
Mike Carlson - 4 times Race to Robie Creek Champ
No Compass
We had a course map of a fairly flat area with subtle detail. These were left over jr. training camp maps with 24 controls set over a small area (<1...
Bill Jarvis
Postage Stamp -O
What you do it get any map and draw a simple grid on it.On x-axis put letters and on the y-axis put numbers, similar to the game battleship.Once you ...
Chance Collard or collard_LP
Simulated Orienteering Course
I do this workout in a park/wooded area adjacent to my neighborhood. The concept is pretty straight forward: I create a roughly sketched map of the a...