Fast relocation
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Orienteering Exercise: Fast relocation
Key information
| Exercise Type: | Map reading, Map memory, Relocation, Terrain memory |
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| Target Level: | Elite level, Junior level, Intermediate level |
| Intensity: | Low, Medium, High |
| Preparation time: | Less than 5 minutes |
| OCAD Required: | No |
| Min participants: | 3 |
A group of 3-6 runners run together. Only the leader is allowed to read the map. When approaching the area around a control, everybody is allowed to look at the map, and shall relocate and find the control as fast as possible. Take turn on being the leader.
| Aim: | Two aims: Fast relocation and terrain memory while running. A good relay/mass-start training. |
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| Variants: | The leader may have a different map, showing a specified place he shall run to, or just choose a suiting spot. The leader may also let the runners try to relocate from a spot far away from the control in some cases. |
| Aids: | No special aids necessary. |
| Terrain: | Visibility should not be very good. |
| Preparations: | Draw a normal course on a map. |
| Tips: | |
| Examples: |
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