I just updated the Workout Of The Week home page. Check out:

http://www.geocities.com/okansas.geo/wotw.html

This is the last WOTW of the spring season. It was suggested by Peggy D. and involves running an orienteering course that is easier than your regular coures (e.g. a red course runner would do a yellow course).

-- Michael (meglin@juno.com), February 23, 2000

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Dan and I did a variation of the WOTW after work on Friday. Mary designed two short yellow-level courses. We each took one of the course and hung tapes to mark the control locations. Then we exchanged maps (and put on headlamps because it was too dark to read the map) and ran the course at a hard pace.

It seemed like a good (though short) work out. We had some trouble finding some of the tapes -- but that was becuase of some small problems with the map.

-- Michael (meeglin@juno.com), February 26, 2000.

Anyone want to join Gene and I for the WOTW at the next PTOC meet?

The meet is at Wyandotte on SAturday, March 4. The idea is that after we've run our regular courses, we will run the yellow course as a mass start. Gene and I talked about this idea a few days ago and it seemed like it'd be fun (and good practice).

-- Michael (mike_eglinski@kcmo.org), February 27, 2000.

Gene, Dave C., and I ran the WOTW at the Wyandotte meet today. After we'd each done our regular course, we did a mass-start on the yellow. It was fun -- and tough. The course had a couple of good hills (one on the way to the first control) and most of the trails were thick-with-mud horse trails.

I think the WOTW was good practice -- I was forced to push myself (especially on a big hill about 1 Km into the 2.9 Km course) even though I was tired from having run the red course earlier. The navigation was no trouble. I would have been disappointed in myself if I'd had any navigation problems.

This sort of training is definetly worthwhile. We might want to try it again at some other local events.

-- Michael (mike_eglinski@kcmo.org), March 04, 2000.