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Saturday Oct 9, 2010 #
Event: 25manna
Orienteering race 40:00 [3] 5.6 km (7:09 / km)
25manna, 5th leg. Limping slowly with sore knee. map:
http://routegadget.awardspace.com/misc/manna2010.j...
I guess my biggest time loss happened on the way to #2, I had to stop and tell Tuxi our location :)
maybe it is just me, but I's say the map was pretty bad (for excessive form line use). In some places form line interval was about 80 cm. Maybe map it was fine for some purposse, like berry picking, and excellent by some standards, but not by IOF's standards. Of course best will do fine with maps like this, but it's not the point. It is like having javelin final at Olympics and instead of standard javelins you give athletes basket of potatoes. Best javelin throwers will throw potatoes well for sure, but those who has learned the technique to trow well the standard javelin will not have advantage they deserve. In ISOM we have fixed contour interval and there is only on level of form lines between contours (2.5m), so mapper just can't map everything, mapper has to simplify. And athletes must learn the skills to navigate with such maps. And racing with these maps is called orienteering. You can have races with 25manna style map, but I'd say it's slightly something else. But like I said maybe it is just me and everyone else is happy with the map. I found it kind of boring and annoying. It's more fun to run with ISOM maps, you need to use later variety of O techniques, not just pick form lines. I wonder why they used normal contours too, they cold have used form lines only.
Anyway, now I'll take month off from running, hopefully knee will be better.
http://routegadget.awardspace.com/misc/manna2010.j...
I guess my biggest time loss happened on the way to #2, I had to stop and tell Tuxi our location :)
maybe it is just me, but I's say the map was pretty bad (for excessive form line use). In some places form line interval was about 80 cm. Maybe map it was fine for some purposse, like berry picking, and excellent by some standards, but not by IOF's standards. Of course best will do fine with maps like this, but it's not the point. It is like having javelin final at Olympics and instead of standard javelins you give athletes basket of potatoes. Best javelin throwers will throw potatoes well for sure, but those who has learned the technique to trow well the standard javelin will not have advantage they deserve. In ISOM we have fixed contour interval and there is only on level of form lines between contours (2.5m), so mapper just can't map everything, mapper has to simplify. And athletes must learn the skills to navigate with such maps. And racing with these maps is called orienteering. You can have races with 25manna style map, but I'd say it's slightly something else. But like I said maybe it is just me and everyone else is happy with the map. I found it kind of boring and annoying. It's more fun to run with ISOM maps, you need to use later variety of O techniques, not just pick form lines. I wonder why they used normal contours too, they cold have used form lines only.
Anyway, now I'll take month off from running, hopefully knee will be better.
Tuesday Oct 5, 2010 #
Running 22:00 4.0 km (5:30 / km)
2 km warm-up, then 2 km at max speed. Today it was 4:17. With normal stride max pace was 5:00, but when I ran with short skiing like steps, knees bent a lot all the time, butt low, I could accelerate a bit. It felt odd and some muscles are sore now. I guess I'll get injured if i run like that a lot. But I guess my body will survive a short leg at 25manna.