Training logs on Attack Point
www.attackpoint.org is an excellent web site to track your training this winter. You choose the training categories (running, adventure racing, skiing, golf, etc.) and enter comments for each session. The web site plots your progress and allows you to export the data as well. Also on the web site is a discussion board and an option to place comments on other people's training logs.
Best of all it is free. But it would be great if GHO could make a small donation to the web master early in the new year. Look for several GHO Canada GHO members on Attack Point. They include: Sudden, Meridian, MrPither, SuperWes1000, Bash, Hammer, TVP, and more....
2006 Canadian Championships
2006 is a great year for orienteering in Ontario. The Guelph Gators will host the Canadian Champs on August 26th and 27th while GHO will host the North American Champs from October 06-09.
Info about the 2006 Canadian Champs is trickling in and the recent COF newsletter mentions that the middle distance day of the COC's will be at Terra Nova. This is a great area that I raced on a half dozen times in the early to mid 80's. Last race was likely 1988. The area has lots of contour detail and very little water features.
A link to the old map is here.
Google Sat image is here.
Sudden wins THOMASS Kickoff!
Two years ago the winter adventure running season kicked off at Kelso Conservation area and Laszlo Orosz beat out Hans Fransson at the end of the course. This year the season also kicked off at Kelso but this year Hans 'Sudden' Fransson took first (and 50 points towards the series standings) just ahead of Orosz.
Mark Innes of the Gators Orienteering Club set a challenging course that started with some fast and furious park orienteering, then a tough trail climb up the escarpment to the THOMASS Box, and finished with a few checkpoints across the downhill ski area.
Full results are here.
Next race: THOMASS Chase & GHO Year-end party (December 11th at Rattlesnake Point)
Training Schedule
The December GHO Canada GHO training plan is posted on the GHO web site here.
GHO Canada GHO Mission
GHO CANADA GHO is a group of adventure runners and orienteers recognized across North America for their high level of integrity, sportsmanship and success as a team.
GHO CANADA GHO is designed for athletes at all levels who are dedicated to orienteering and adventure running and who want to continue to improve and compete to the best of their ability and potential.
GHO CANADA GHO will work to promote the sport of orienteering and adventure running at both recreational and competitive levels, within the Hamilton/Golden Horseshoe region and throughout Ontario. The program and its athletes will offer clinics, lessons and tips on orienteering and training for people of all ability levels. It will promote the benefits of a healthy lifestyle and encourage people to take up outdoor sports, particularly orienteering, adventure racing, and adventure running.
