This will be our last regular bulletin until orienteering starts up again. Until then, we encourage you to keep in contact with orienteering at home online as flagged below.
Better than Netflix - here are a few O things for you to scroll through.
With a fair few of people's usual activities not possible for the next couple of months, here are a few orienteering things to keep you busy/interested (Thanks to OV and coach Eva Jurenikova's twitter)
- With the European orienteering season put on hold for at least a few months (some countries' federations have already cancelled all events up until May), World of O are putting together daily route choice challenges for you to solve, here's Day 1 and Day 2
- The organisers of Oringen 2020 (a huge week long event in Sweden) have been releasing plenty of coaching videos that are well worth a watch here.
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Redefining Strength have 230 videos to give you ideas for strength training that you can do at home.
- This Running Coaching Course has been made free of charge for a month if you choose the monthly option and apply the coupon code: BetterTogether
- The social-fitness network Strava, recently compiled some fascinating data on their users' motivation for running that you can explore here.
- Prepare for your next European orienteering trip with a free language course from Duolingo
Practice your route choices with Running Wild, a great tool for simulating decision making under pressure.
Bridget's blog to keep you motivated.
Bridget Uppill, Coaching and Training Co-ordinator for Orienteering South Australia, is making a series of video blogs for the South Australian Junior Orienteers to motivate and keep everyone active within the Government Guidelines. She has very kindly agreed to share these videos with the Orienteering Australia Community. Thank you so much Bridget!
Here are the first two videos. If you find these videos helpful please like/follow the posts so that you can receive the upcoming posts that Bridget makes.
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Here's your chance for a virtual orienteering experience.
Virtual-O is an orienteering simulator that has been under development since about 2015. It is being developed mainly for PCs as a training aid to improve map-reading and orienteering techniques. The developers claim that it can be used for coaching and by orienteers from top level to school newcomers. Why not give it a try?
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Even more things for you to do while lying on the couch.
