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By Ali Crocker
Months before:
In the months leading up to WOC 2012, I was trying to just orienteer as much as possible, with the goal of 2000 controls since the previous WOC in Savoie, France. Throughout the spring, I attended lots of NEOC local meets to get good orienteering training in on the weekends. Over in Western Mass, we also had preparations for the Western Mass “5 day” A-meet, and some of this was really good training - test running a handful of courses and vetting all of the control sites for the A-meets at Earl's Trails, as well as setting and vetting my own courses over on Cemetery Hill.
by Peter Amram
If you've never competed in an A-Meet before, this is your chance. Make the North American Orienteering Championships your first A-Meet and receive a rebate of up to $20 of your event fees.
The "NAOC" will be held Oct. 18-21 in Delaware Water Gap, PA. See this .pdf document for details.
World Orienteering Championships
Lausanne, Switzerland
July 2012
by Alex Jospé
photo courtesy of WorldOfO.com
You know those days where it feels like your feet barely touch the ground as you run? Where the navigation comes so easily that every feature appears in front of you at exactly the right time? Those are good days. Unfortunately, it’s pretty rare that everything lines up exactly as it should, so those good days are few and far between. What can you do to affect when those days happen?
For me, the answer to reliable athletic performance lies in self-analysis and clear goals. I have always felt that having very specific, measurable, attainable goals is a key to success, and set both outcome and process goals to help get me there. Given the inevitable fluctuations in how fast a given finish place in a race ends up being, one of the more reliable measures of success is how far behind the winner’s time I end up being.
Barb Bryant sends this reminder:
NEOC members Peter and Gail Gagarin, Judy Karpinski and Jeff Saeger are competing at WMOC [World Masters Orienteering Championships], which is happening now. And we have a US team at WUOC [World University O-Champs], also happening now. Attackpoint will probably have postings from both places. Peter did real well in the sprint qualifier, making the A final by placing 3rd in his race. The final takes place this afternoon. (Morning in the USA.)
JWOC [Junior World O-Champs]: training week starting today. I am posting some things about the trip on Attackpoint.
Soon the team will start posting at the USA team blog.
As a reminder, you can read about the team members here.
Official sites: