Improve your orienteering without leaving the couch!

Geoff Mead - Aug 2016

World Of O website

The World of O website ( http ://worldofo . com/ ) is a great source of international orienteering news, maps, competitors blogs, and results. Often the material can help with orienteering skill and technique development. Or perhaps you are addicted to looking at orienteering maps?

Recent articles on the Junior World Championships (we had club members Cameron, Alice and Kayla competing) provide detailed analysis for each race. Route choice options, times for each option, why a certain option was faster, mistakes made by competitors, videos from the terrain, and GPS routes of competitors.

I have invested (wasted?) hours using the information in these articles, looking at a leg of the race on the map and working out which way I would attack the leg. Which route choice and why. Then I go to the World Of O analysis and see how the best junior orienteers in the world ran the leg and which (and why) was the fastest route choice. How did my route selection hold up? Virtual orienteering that will help with the thinking part of our challenging sport, then you just need to transfer your improved skills to the real world of an orienteering event.

JWOC mens sprint http ://news . worldofo . com/2016/07/11/jwoc-sprint-men-2016-analysis/

JWOC mens middle http ://news . worldofo . com/2016/07/15/jwoc-2016-middle-men-gps-and-splits-analysis/

JWOC mens long http ://news . worldofo . com/2016/07/12/jwoc-2016-long-men-gps-and-splits-analysis/

JWOC womens sprint http ://news . worldofo . com/2016/07/11/jwoc-sprint-women-2016-gps-and-split-analysis/

JWOC womens middle http ://news . worldofo . com/2016/07/15/jwoc-2016-middle-women-gps-and-splits-analysis/

JWOC womens long http ://news . worldofo . com/2016/07/13/jwoc-2016-long-women-gps-and-splits-analysis/

Good luck, don't forget to get off the couch sometimes and train those legs and lungs.

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