Discussion: Training while traveling

Some enterprising orienteer with lots of travel experience should put up a website entitled "Quick Runs for Orienteers on Layovers." The site would provide a copy of an easily-accessed map and instructions for getting there by transit from the airport.

Perhaps such a site would encourage clubs to put up permanent courses for these travelers. And perhaps orienteers would purposely arrange longer layovers, to take advantage of this midday run on an otherwise boring business trip.

When I was VP of the Chicago club, it was always a dream to map the Des Plaines River forest preserve just east of O'Hare which can be accessed easily from the first el train station...about 20 minutes from baggage claim to trailhead. And then put up a permanent course for all the orienteers who come through ORD and have time on their hands.

Every time I'm sitting around Sweden's Arlanda airport on our way over to Finland to visit my wife's parents, I try to figure out how to get to one of the many fine nearby maps. So far unsuccessfully. My closest O map there involves a 90minute trip on two buses and a train. But the woods and map are beautiful and worth the trip.

Does anyone have other maps that are easily accessed during a layover?

It may not involve maps, but Wyatt Riley has always been a bit obsessive about getting in running training while travelling and would have some tips.

Umstead park abuts RDU.

Tips on where baggage / carry on can be checked are also useful for each airport/training. Biggest pains about leaving airport during layover are having to go back thru security and having a place to keep your belongings safe.

Airport orienteering is always an option:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umq62C9sCLs

To get to this map from Arlanda is pretty simple. Just leave the airport building, turn left, and follow the fence sort of. It is pretty far though, probably more than 4 km to get to the interesting terrain. No public transport in that direction as far as I know, but you can always try hitchhiking.

Thanks Spike! LOL! I never had that much fun in Schiphol!

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/bv9t7dukwcju...

http://www.pihkaniskat.fi/ar_gadget/cgi/reitti.cgi...

Map and a guide map to get there.

The Laramie maps are easy to get to, en route to Bryce Canyon from NY.

Discovered the existence of this when I was near BWI last weekend:

http://www.dnr.state.md.us/greenways/bwi_trail.htm...

http://maps.o-sport.ru/data_map/52.jpg
Old map (1990) just 1.5 km South from SVO (Sheremetyevo-Moscow)

I always find somewhere to run - with or without a map.