6:00 at Shawnee Mission Park (marina). We need a volunteer to set up some training. Otherwise, it will be something very informal (perhaps just a trail run)

-- Mary (maprunner@juno.com), May 20, 2002

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Even though I don’t seem to be able to make it to anyone else’s training. I will be glad to set something up. I had an idea after my Rogaine road trip that I would like to try. You will not need a map but it should really test your skills!!! I think it will be a lot of fun but I will keep all the details a secret.

keith

-- Keith (keith_lay@hotmail.com), May 21, 2002.

I plan to be there. It'll be interesting to see what Keith has in store for us.

-- Michael (mike_eglinski@kcmo.org), May 21, 2002.

Keith set a fun memory O for us. He had been talking about memory O on the road trip to the Ohio rogaine. Dan, Mike, Eric and I ran the course tonight.

-- Mary (maprunner@juno.com), May 23, 2002.

It was fun and something different. It would be really tough in a park I don't know as well. I spent 50 minutes running plus a total 5 minutes looking at the map at the 7 controls.

How can this type of training be useful?

-- Eric S. (erics1999@msn.com), May 24, 2002.

Eric asked how this kind of training (memory O) can be useful. I find it useful for showing me how fast I can go, if I don't stop to look at a map all the time. When I go directly to a control in a steady brisk pace with no stops, I save a lot of time. I never believed I was losing so much time looking at the map until I did a memory O. To compare times: Usually I take twice the time of Mike or Dan on a course. Yesterday, Dan did the memory O in about 40 minutes. I did it in 58 minutes, and I walked about 75-80% of the time. But I never stopped moving the whole time (except to look at map fragments at the control locations). I had a good run in PA last weekend, partly because I moved quickly and steadily from control to control without ever stopping. One last thing: memory O is good for teaching you to look quickly at a map and extract the most pertinant information.

-- Mary (maprunner@juno.com), May 24, 2002.