Training Log Archive: Jagge

I declare myself recovered both from knee injury and cold. So fine!

Pretty handy headcam :)

Worldofo is working on article series of improving O skills using head cam. Here is how I see it:

- you should already have a systematic way to improve your skills without head cam. Head camera is just one tool to find out are you doing what you should be doing in forest.

- you should have model of your orienteering - your cognitive process, what you think and do and it all is controlled and so on. Then you compare your real world doings against this model. If your current doings it differs from the model and it slows you down, you focus on doing as yo model says. If you do as your model says but it makes you slow/make mistakes, you need to improve on your model. with head cam you might be able to spot some things slowing your down or you making differently than your model.

- you get rid of bad habits by focusing not to do them any more and doing it the right way - the way your model tells your should do - and you repeat and repeat. Eventually you build a habit of doing it right, then you don't need to focus on it any more and you can focus on something else. Eventually you do everything right bu habit, so you don't need to focus much at all, situations comes and goes and you do the right thing by your habit, even if you are tired, under pressure or out of oxygen. And even if you don't do the perfect move, the good habit saves you from doing the bad move. That's the beauty of building good habits and killing bad ones - you just grab the map you are 99% magic without having to focus 100% every time.

For me, O scanning with my eyes between my feet and the horizon and seeking for best micro route choices, the horizon direction being at the direction of the place I am going to/ my next target along my route that I can't see yet. That's all, it is as simple as that. But of course, to do it, I need to do some things. Finding my feet is easy, but the other end of the eye scanning line is more kinky, I have to look at map time to time to _know_ what my target actually is, and to look compass to _know_ what directions it actually is and if I seen something I think is mapped I may have to look at map to see _know_ what line I am on. If I don't know these thinks, I need to fined out or keep on going to most likely direction. Quite simple, mostly habit and automated process. No need to increase or control map reading frequency. Feeding the process with increased map reading just slows me down and reading less isn't possible, the nav process habit just end up sucking the information from map reading, it doesn't live without it. For me all the talk about analyzing map reading frequency and increasing or keeping it up is nonsense. For me it's like saying you got dehydrated because you did not took a leak often enough. For me the map reading frequency is quite insignificant, I just need to know where I am going and what I am doing and getting the information is enough. sometimes I need to read map often, sometimes virtually not at all. The thing is the map reading frequency is controlled by the gore nav thinking process, if it fails everything fails, inducing map reading frequency. The cure isn't fixing map reading frequency, it is fixing the gore process.

I wrote about my way of doing it some time ago:

http://www.attackpoint.org/viewlog.jsp/user_954/pe...

Further (and far better for 110% sure) reading "Suunnistus ja ajattelu" by Pekka Nikulainen and Suunnistustaito By Pekka, Janne Salmi and Thierry's coaches from Kalevan Rasti (I think).

C • Good input! 6

Wide angle lens test. I am relatively happy with the result. Lot of distortion near edges, but image is sharp, lens doens't make it blur.

A lot better than without the lens http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptiFHRBnE8o

Angle is 35% wider than in Nokia 5230 I used to use.

C • Looks good! 5

sick, cold?

Rest day, my stomach had not felt OK today. I think I haven't eaten enough domestic sushi lately. Raw makkara & mustard that is.

Clip from head cam:


I haven't got the wide lens yet. Camera is quite useless without it. As you can see.

Head lamp run

My new camera arrived today. View angle is too narrow, much narrower than in the cell phone I have used, but it will be fine with the fish eye lens if it works as it should. I just haven't got the lens yet.

GPS headcam orienteering, Malminkartano from Jarkko Ryyppö on Vimeo.

Video of yesterday's orienteering. 23:20, 186 Mb. Vimeo 500 Mb limit would allow 63 minute footage if compressed like this. Quality is clearly not as good as original, but well, I don't know. HR data timing if of by about one minute. I should have cut first minute off from the video and gps data, but never bothered to do it.

This is also nice sightseeing of the map I made to test drive the cell phone mapping app.

C • Video test 7

C • Hyvä 2

head cam test O. I managed to stop recording when I put the camera on my forehead. So I had to do round two to get some pictures. Exhausted at the end. This also was the hardest running training in several months. And surprise: knee is now sore. Two rest days will fix it I hope. I Guess I should take it easy with my knee for couple of months. The good thing is I could run and it did not bother me while running.

Around neighborhood.

head lamp run.

How about having too maps, on for close up view and one for whole leg?

C • Excellent 12

warmop/down + 3955 street o, 6 km

classic

headlamp run without headlamp.

Home > Paloheinä 5k -> home

The other night I played with head cam video issue too. I wrote a little app for replaying GPS track on O map and simultaneously controlling video player. I click route on map and video jumps to that spot and plays it from there. It's stand alone, no need for video editing or internet connection or uploading videos to video sites. So you can immediately after the run download track data from gps and video from camera and start playing. And no 20 min video limits, I could play 90 min videos. Still would need some polishing, like adding pause button, rotating map and so, but I guess I will never do any changes. Just a quick experiment.

C • Nice 3

head lamp run.

head lamp run.

Easy trail run. Left calf was sore in the end, but knee was ok, not even sore or anything. And no day after soreness either. This is bad news for my rivals. Fitness may be the worst I have been in this millennium, but there is still time.

intervals on ice.