Discussion: threw map on the FLOOR? Where...

threw map on the FLOOR? Where are you orienteering? :)

Sounds like a great weekend, though.

Hee hee! It was a trick they taught me way back in the Yorkshire Junior squad when I'd been messing things up - throw the map on the floor, imagine the start clock beeps and start the race again, clean sheet! Works surprisingly well. And yup, awesome week!

I think I was more suprised by the fact that it was floor... which I usually think of being indoors:)

It actually sounds like a really good technique. Having the physical element of picking up the map again seems like a good way to make it feel concrete rather than just telling yourself to refocus--which I don't always find to be that effective.

Last fall, if I got very distracted by something external to me, I started to make myself stop for 2 seconds without looking at the map and then look back and pick out my place and check my compass. I had noticed that I often lost contact when something happened that isn't really wrong but that I have to think/worry about. For example, if a sport ident is missing so I have to use the back-up punch, if I roll and ankle hard enough that I have to walk for a few steps, or if somebody asks me where I am in the forest. It definitely seemed to help.