http://o-training.net/blog Your Orienteering Technical Training Resource Sun, 02 Aug 2015 13:05:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here we take a look at how Denmark managed to win such a clear victory in the WOC Sprint Relay - and how the race was decided. The Sprint Relay is a very hectic race - and due to the forking it is difficult to understand during the race if ... http://o-training.net/blog/2015/08/02/woc-sprint-relay-2015-gps-splits-analysis/ Through a cooperation between World of O and TracTrac, it is now possible to open TracTrac orienteering events in 2DRerun for analysis when the TracTrac events are in replay mode. Below follows a very quick GPS-analysis of the World Cup long distance in Spain this Saturday. Note that the GPS-measured lengths ... http://o-training.net/blog/2014/04/05/world-cup-long-spain-quick-gps-analysis/ One of my favourite computer programs for race analysis is WinSplits Pro - a orienteering split time analysis program released back in 2007 by Mats Troeng, but it still does its job very well. Yesterday the iPhone version of the program, WinSplits Pro for iPhone, was released. The programmer behind WinSplits ... http://o-training.net/blog/2014/04/01/winsplits-pro-for-iphone-quick-review/ In an interesting article at the O-Ringen website multiple World Champion Thierry Gueorgiou gives insight into compass use from his point of view. Gueorgiou is known to be one of the best direction runners, using hours upon hours to improve his technique. Still he is far from perfect according to ... http://o-training.net/blog/2013/05/22/gueorgiou-how-to-master-the-compass/ 2DRerun has been updated with new functionality for HeadCam analysis. The HeadCam analysis works with local video-files directly from your harddisk - and can e.g. open files directly from a GoPro Hero2 without conversion. That means that you do not need to wait for upload to YouTube, Vimeo or other ... http://o-training.net/blog/2013/03/03/headcam-analysis-with-local-videos-in-2drerun/ Reading an article about effective technical training in sports, I noticed that  the same overall rules of thumb can be used for orienteering technical training as well. Or what do you think? You need to have a targeted focus for developing/improving your technique on all "normal" trainings. The simple rules set up in ... http://o-training.net/blog/2012/11/18/what-is-effective-technical-training/ The long leg from control 27 to 28 decided the mens class in the Swiss Championships long distance yesterday. At the start of the leg three runners were fighting for gold: Matthias Kyburz, Matthias Merz and Marc Lauenstein. With good performance on this leg, Kyburz took home the gold medal. Can ... http://o-training.net/blog/2012/08/20/routechoice-challenge-long-decisive-leg-in-swiss-champs-long/ Time for some theoretical route choice thinking: This long leg is from a route choice training session that at the recent Orienteering Canada HPP Training Camp in Canmore. Before drawing your route, you may take a look at the information which was given up front here. After drawing your route, see ... http://o-training.net/blog/2012/06/04/webroute-route-choice-leg-canada/ 13 World Champions on the start list - two very WOC Middle relevant races: The '3 jours du Haut Jura 2012' is a race worth taking a closer look at. Saturday's middle distance had Philippe Adamski and Sara Lüscher on top - Monday's middle distance had Mats Haldin and Helena ... http://o-training.net/blog/2012/05/29/2drerun-two-very-woc-middle-relevant-races/ A tough long distance with many long legs with route choice options - that were some of the ingredients in today's long distance final at the European Championships in Skattungbyn, Sweden. An important note about the illustrations: All time on the illustrations are GPS-times, i.e. not official split times. Thus time ... http://o-training.net/blog/2012/05/18/eoc-long-final-gps-analysis/