IF UNDELIVERED Return to 333 River Rd . Vanier. Ont . K1L 8B9 FIRST CLASS MAIL ORIENTEERING CANADA July 1983 ISSN 0227-6658 Vol. 11 No. 2 ORIENTEERING EQUIPMENT AND ACCESSORIES FROM SILVA LIMITED 446 McNICOLL AVE. WILLOWDALE, ONTARIO M2H 2E1 416-459-1951 STANDARD ORIENTEERING SILVA SYSTEM COMPASSES RUNNING SUIT $32.00 7NL POLARIS . $ 9.50 TOPS ONLY $16.00 4S/22 ORIENTEER . $32.00 PANTS ONLY $16.00 11 THUMB . $15.95 KNICKERS ONLY . $16.00 PACING SCALES . $ 2.00 (Stock Colours - Green, HECTOR SHOES . $25.00 Navy and Blue) SISU SHOES . $25.00 VM-DRAKTEN SUITS . $40.00 KOMPASSROSEN SHOES $25.00 SILVA SUITS $32.00 VAUHTI SHOES . $25.00 ORIENTEERING SOCKS . $ 7.95 YNGVEEK SHOES . $35.00 ORIENTEERING GAITERS . $ 7.95 S & M SHOES . $60.00 SILVA T SHIRTS • • • • $ 5.00 TRIM! BOOTS . • $30.00 ORIENTEERING HEAD LAMPS CONTROL STATION MARKERS #3611 $16.00 (CARDBOARD) PER DOZ.$ 8.50 SILVA HEAD BANDS • . $ 2.00 CONTROL STATION MARKERS SILVA TOTE BAGS . 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Inc Centre notional du wort el de a re,,realtion ORIENTEERING CANADA THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE CANADIAN ORIENTEERING FEDERATION 333 River Road, Ottawa, Ontario K1L 8H9 Vol. 11 No. 2 July, 1983 CONTENTS Guest Editorial 4 Ontario Fall Training Camp 6 President's Niche 7 The Spring Thaw...Harbinger of Phase Two of the Ontario Schools Program 8 Training, Detraining and Maintenance of Aerobic and Anaerobic Fitness 11 Orienteering in the Sky 13 Officials' Certification Program Revised 14 Coaching Corner 14 National Coaching Certification Program Summary 15 National Pool Corner 18 Western Orienteers Break Onto the National Team 19 The Juniors are Coming' 20 Junior Team Competition Results 21 Meet the Junior Team Going to Denmark 22 Canadian Junior Team Trip - Denmark/Sweden 27 Selection to the National Junior Team 1984 28 "Rogaining" - Anyone' 28 Why Full Body Cover 29 Orienteering in the U.S S R 31 A Great Attempt to "Double or More by 1984" 32 Aging is When 33 Winners - Course Planning Competition 33 My First '0' Experience 37 Hosts Needed for 1986 N.A.C. and 1986 C.0 C 39 Introducing..."The Coach" 41 US Orienteering Championships-1983 42 Map Reliability 43 An Overview of COF Project Planning and Fitness E Amateur Sport Financial Support 44 Annual Club Award 46 Fit to Eat - A Reality at Last 48 The Importance of Losing 49 COF Drops 52 I.O.F. Council Visits Canada 53 ORIENTEERING CANADA is published in Ottawa with the assistance of the National Sport and Recreation Centre. EDITOR: Winnie Krogsrud, #403-83 Indian Rd., Toronto, Ont. M6R 2V5 ASSISTANT EDITOR: John Craig. TYPIST AND LAYOUT: Lee Leger CONTRIBUTORS: John Craig, Charlie Fox, Winnie Krogsrud, Peter Pimm, Ted de St. Croix, Teddy Bayer, Matti Poom, Colin Kirk, Chris Johnson, Les Cooper COVER PHOTO: Dave Lumb of Ottawa '0' Club, photo taken by Bruce Brenot. DEADLINE FOR ARTICLES FOR NEXT ISSUE: to be received by August 31st. ALL ARTICLES MUST BE SUBMITTED TO THE EDITOR BY THE DEADLINE DATE. 3 GUEST EDITORIAL by John Craig Orienteering is now a part of the National any prolonged eye contact would represent Coaching Certification Program (NCCP) an invasion of our territory. His with the Level I Technical Course for "0" glasses sat a long way down his thin nose, being offered across the nation. his hair was short, and his pants were only partly tucked into the top of his boots The Canadian Orienteering Federation And he shuffled his feet continually, kick- newsletter assistant editor, John Craig, is ing at stones and stomping on what little one of Canada's top runners. His profile grass remained above the muddy, frozen of his first coach is what I hope all of ground. Canada's orienteering coaches can become. Though I would not recognize it until years ODE TO A COACH later, Steen was a man of enormous self- reliance and strength-of-character. He This story is about David Steen, my very accepted challenges at most every turn and first coach. Not to be confused with his always sought new experiences. But he was nephew, decathlete Dave Steen of the also a gentleman and a philosopher, an University of Toronto, David was a gold intent listener who was usually more medallist in the Commonwealth Games shot interested in learning than in teaching. put in both 1966 and 1970, and the Canadian record holder for several years. I knew none of that at our first meeting, of course. To me he was just a big man who I have not seen David in a long time, this seemed a little embarrassed at making so due mostly to my own procrastination and bold an invitation. And I accepted his feelings of shyness. And I suppose he was invitation for no other reason than that not dramatically different from a lot of it seemed like it would be lots of fun. coaches; any lasting, learning relationship between a coach and athlete is bound to be Over the next few years we formed a solid important to both. But he was special to friendship. We used to have running week- me, and I suspect I was too young before to ends up at his home in Terra Cotta, the really say thank you. entire club camping in his basement. We'd spend the day running our hearts out in games that always had a chocolate bar at On a cold, grey day in 1968, when I was the end of them, and spending the evenings still running in Keds and dress socks, in conversation and joke telling. We'd go David Steen asked me to come out and run swimming in the river, play frisbee with with his track club. I had just finished the dog and shoot some baskets on the struggling through a sloppy cross country driveway. And in the evenings, when the race and I was fairly certain that I would younger members of the club had gone to bed, never run again, but there was something we'd sit in the kitchen, drinking tequila about this man's enthusiasm that was milkshakes, and listen to him talk about compelling. international competition. It seems those were the only times when he wasn't laugh- He was a bigger man then than he is now, ing at something, and he would talk way as wide in one thigh as I was at the waist. down low so you had to get up off the A large, dark overcoat protected his chair in order to hear him. immense dimensions against the bite of the wind, and he spent a lot of time looking He would tell us about his experiences, at the ground, as though he was afraid that about training and working hard, about 4 determination, and mental attitude and After my race I had warmed down with some of setting goals and winning. He talked a lot the others, and we were all looking forward about winning; not just finishing first, to a hot shower and a cold drink. But but achieving goals however set, about Larry Hill was still out on the course, long giving everything to a cause, and about after the winner had come in and we would listening to your heart sometimes as much as have to wait for him before any of us could your head. go home. We probably didn't understand most of it. Larry, one of the youngest and smallest Dave had a way of talking that made you never members of Our club, had entered the open quite sure whether he was joking or being competition, an affair that was considerably serious. And by the time you figured it out. longer than he had raced before. He was you had forgotten what point he had been surely up to the task, and as full of trying to make in the first place. determination as any one I knew, but as we found out later, his lungs were just not But I do remember a few things about big enough to handle the demands he was Dave that helped us figure out what placing on them. he was trying to get across. We all waited together near the finish I remember for example, arriving at his line as, one by one, the runners came in house uninvited on a Sunday afternoon, and out of the snow. It got windy, and we finding him in his garage, lifting weights left Steen by himself and sought shelter until he was sick to his stomach. I don't behind a monument. It got colder still, and know how much weight he had been lifting, or we huddled in the car, leaving Dave to wait how many sets of which exercises, but I do at the finish by himself, watching his hair know that a person has to lift an awful lot turn white and crusty as the snow collected in order to make himself sick.