Yesterday evening we had an o-technical meeting here in Shimshit. For me, it was a little surprise how skillful the young guys here are and it is now obvious that thinking in orienteering is processed here as well. The Tzippori map above has been the best so far and we went through that in yesterday's meeting quite deeply. I had an idea after the training that these kind of high class maps & terrains would be really suitable for night-o relay training for the Scandinavian top class o-teams at this time of year - if the teams would know they exist!
So far I have added most of the maps to here.
For me the most important terrains are the great slope forests, because I will be running those in races duing spring and summer. I have never felt myself so confident with them, except in uphill-running, in which I am a devil ;-). During this trip I have also seen that running the uphills is strong, but orienteering not. I am of course very sensitive to observe the errors and corrections to my o-technics are already in progress...
You will find some technical terrains here as well, like Ein Zeitim above. It was pretty slow (but beautiful) terrain and my performance reminded me from the fact that even I can still get lost while just hiking and jogging in the forest. The last days I have done quite a lot training (with low speed yesterday), and things are going well here. On Friday and Saturday we will run the Winter Championships and today is kind of a rest day. Only 15km of running maybe?
