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My training treeI made a little toy of my training log in 2012. The idea was to take my entire log and use the information to be able to predict how I trained given two bits of information - the day of the week and ... |
 Firsts Yep, there are still plenty of things we haven\t done yet in Uppsala and this weekend was filled with Firsts.On Friday night, I tried flavor tripping. We used a tablet form of the berry and ate limes ... |
 Living in a snow globe Uppsala really is meant to have snow. I didn\t realize how much we were missing out on last year. Working now it great, I enjoy making money again and being with students. But I miss have free time d ... |
MTBO Project updateThe theme for last week in the 2013 MTBO Project was steal withoutapology. My stealing was to read the new ski O handbook and lift a training idea. Im not sure Id really call that stealing, ... |
Looking at mapsPart of the first two weeks of my 2013 project involved some map study. Easy and fun. A great feature of orienteering as a sport is that you can practice without actually getting up off the sofa. ... |
2013 MTBO ProjectIn 2013 Im going to be a better MTB orienteer. That shouldnt be too difficult because Im not a good mountain bike rider and Ive done very little MTB orienteering (a local event a few years ago and a ... |
Contour map of USA and Canada WOC resultsI mapped the USA and Canada WOC qualifying results for 2003-2012. I created contours to show the shape of the results over time. Im not sure that makes sense, but it makes for some interesting con ... |
 Snow More snow continues to fall here in Uppsala. My little weather widget calls for snow everyday, but it\s only a centimeter or two.The sun is rising later and on my morning bike commute to work I even ... |
Playing with training text analysisI read training logs for a number of orienteers at Attackpoint. It is fun to see how people train. It is especially fun to read what they write about their training and racing. Attackpoint makes ... |
 Commuting My commute this morning on my bike:Just after collecting my bike from the indoor bike room.Down the quiet side street.The morning bike commutes have been a bit more slippery than the evenings. Both o ... |
Another look at WOC qualifying results 2003-2012One of the things I can do with my spreadsheet of US WOC qualifying results is compare those results with what you might expect given a simple measure of each orienteers performance. For the US runn ... |
Looking at US and Canada WOC qualifying results (2003-2012)I came up with a really simple way to try to forecast the U.S. WOC results last summer and called it SPROUT. Ive been planning to improve the system a bit, mostly by adding 2012 results and by more ... |
Adding some more training hours to the graph of training hour...I updated my graph of the relationship between total training hours and orienteering training hours. I added 7 of the North American orienteers and their hours. I also changed the line from a stra ... |
 Weekend Fun This weekend was the Linné Gala, which signifies the end of the season and time to relax and have fun. The organizing crew (which included Ross) did an amazing job decorating, serving wonderfu ... |
Looking at some training hours for elite orienteersThe Norwegian O Federation web page listed some training data for a bunch of elite orienteers and elite junior orienteers. Most, but not all, are Norwegians. I spent a few minutes looking at the n ... |
 October October in the USEm and Baby Ben! Bath Time.Boggle Games at North Americans. Really, we did race prep...Delaware Water Gap. iPhone doesn\t do the colors justice.Exploring with Alex, Ross and KarenBei ... |
O' videos from KSFILMCREWHeres a great orienteering video:
Great because it shows you speed and some of the amazing terrain we orienteers get to experience.
You can find more of these at KSFILMCREW on youtube. Im not su ... |
My current "rule of thumb" for MTB O trail mappingI spent some more time working on an MTB orienteering map. The map clip shows some of the trail network.
Ive been struggling a bit with the mapping. It is tempting to draw lots of variations ... |
"Year of he Perfect Run"I recently finished Year of the Perfect Run - a non-fiction orienteering book about trying to have a perfect run. I found it interesting, though I got bogged down in some of the leg-by-leg descripti ... |
 Disappeared? No, we\re still here. Life is great, even though it feels like it\s the end of autumn, not the end of summer in Uppsala. This morning I wished I had gloves for the bike ride to work! But, my 60% is r ... |
Mapping some trails for MTB orienteeringI took a few photographs of the trails at Clinton yesterday. The trails are on the mountain bike orienteering map and the photos illustrate two different types of mapped trails.
The first set of ... |
Some MTB Orienteering notesI did a bit of mountain biking riding this summer. I also did some mountain bike orienteering mapping. And since I now have a couple of nearby MTB O maps, Ive done a bit of mountain bike orienteer ... |
 Home Uppsala is certainly home now. It\s not my only home - I still refer to the house I grew up in as home, and my two apartments in Newton still remind me of home. But Uppsala is certainly home now. The ... |
 What, you thought we were done? WOC may be over, but US orienteers have been keeping busy.The last update to the blog was right before the relay, where Ali Crocker had an amazing opening leg, handing off to Sandra in 3rd (!) place. ... |
Watching "Medaljens Pris"A bunch of the Swedish orienteers I follow on Twitter have been watching a Swedish sports documentary called Medaljens Pris. I figured it was worth take a look, so I fired up a web browser and watch ... |
Some MTB orienteering mappingI spent some time today working on a mountain bike orienteering map. I was inspired by the Swedish Orienteering Federations step-by-step guide to converting an orienteering map to a MTB orienteering ... |
 Croatia In Croatia, even pictures taken out of a moving car with an iphone look amazing.;
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Mapping "one-way" trailsIve been working on a mountain bike orienteering map. The area is small and flat with mainly single track trails that run along the river. The trail system is essentially a big loop of a one-way t ... |
US WOC relay team predictionMy super-simple forecast for the US relay teams at tomorrows WOC relays:
Men 27th
Women 19th
The forecast method is very simple. I looked at the results of the WOC relays since 2003 and gave a sli ... |
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Looking ahead to the WOC relayIve been thinking about SPROUT-like projections for the WOC relay races. I havent made any projections, but I did take a look at USA v Canada. Canada doesnt have a womens team this year, but both ... |
 Sam 40th in the Long Today was the Long Final, the last of the individual medal events at WOC, and the US cheer squad was out in force to cheer on Sam. It was a long tough course (check out the map, with shaded relief) a ... |
Relay Teams! It\s been a bit quieter than usual here on the blog as the team winds down from the whirlwind of the past four days. With both sprints on Saturday, the long qual on Sunday, the middle qual on Monday, ... |
 JWOC - Relay, Banquet, and photo links Well, JWOC is over and it was delightful watching the Junior team compete. If you\d like to see more pictures, here is a list of galleries: 5 July 2012 Middle distance traininghttp://bidwbb.smug ... |
SPROUT overviewTrying to predict US team results at the WOC was an experiment. In part, I wanted to see if a really simple model would work. In part, Im alwaysinterestedin ways of thinking about how a team i ... |
 A Day at WOC: Middle Distance Qual 8:00am Wake up, the sun is shining, Eddie is already up, Giacomo and Eric in deep sleep in their bunks. Get up, go down to the cafeteria for breakfast. Wait in line, chatting with the Australians and ... |
Another test of SPROUT predictionsAnother day of WOC qualifications means another test for SPROUT.
Today the US Team had one runner qualify for a final. The places of all six runners were: 13, 17, 22, 27, 30 and 33. If you look a ... |
 On goals This doesn\t have a whole lot to do with WOC, but it\s somewhat relevant. And very long. But hopefully informative. On goals:I do a lot of goal-setting work with my junior skiers, and as a resul ... |
 Sam's in! Today was Sam\s day to be on the right side of 15th - she had a good run and finished 13th in her heat of the Long qual and will thus advance to the Long Final on Thursday. Sam says, it\s nice to see ... |
SPROUT worked well todayAfter looking at the results from todays WOC sprint champs, it looks like SPROUT had a very good day.
SPROUT had projections for 5 US runners.
SPROUT got one of the 5 exactly right (i.e. predicted ... |
 Ali 20th in the World! Ali Crocker sprinted her way to a 20th place finish in the Sprint Final, a fantastic and very exciting result for Team USA. Here\s an interview with Ali after the race:See the map, gps tracking, and ... |
 Sprint Qual results This morning was the Sprint Qualification race, with fast and furious courses through the campuses of the University of Lausanne and the Swiss Institute of Technology. Only the top 15 in each heat qu ... |
 Ali makes the sprint final! Mixed results this morning in the sprint qual, with an awesome run by Ali, 3rd in her heat, and a oh-so-close and heartbreaking 16th place/5 seconds out of qualifying for Sam. The general consensus f ... |
Looking ahead to tomorrowI was thinking about a simple way to forecast how the U.S. team will do at this years WOC. I came up with the Stupid Projection for Results of Orienteering by the U.S. Team (aka SPROUT). Heres how ... |
Ready to Sprint! Tomorrow is the first day of WOC 2012 and Team USA has five awesome runners ready to go.Start times for the Qualification race, local time:Ali 9:06Sam 9:17Hannah 9:21Boris 10:22Giacomo 10:33You can s ... |
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