Types of Orienteer

[Gnitworp]

I like to describe types of orienteer by their Splitsbrowser Graph.

1) The flat liner: a very boring person with a horizontal graph.

2) The precipice orienteer: A potentially 'very boring person' who obligingly 'falls' over
this near vertical element every time he/she turns out.

3) The paddy field orienteer: A fast runner, but poor orienteer, who make lots of minor
mistakes (graph resembles rice paddy fields on a steep hillside)

4) The Steady Eddie: An orienteer whose graph makes a ruler look bent but who never
gets under 45 deg.

Any more types?

[ifor]

Well there is the droop where the course is too long for the runners inital speed.

You sometimes see the paddy field turn into the flat liner mid run which tells a tale.

[andy]

You sometimes see the paddy field turn into the flat liner mid run which tells a tale.

'The Follower'

[King Penguin]

the "slow starter"

[Gnitworp]

...or 'reverse droop'

[Ed]

Well there is the droop where the course is too long for the runners inital speed.

"The Lemming"?

[Gnitworp]

'The Follower'

Flat liner by proxy?

[King Penguin]

Depends who they are following....

[Gnitworp]

Indeed, could be any of the 'types by proxy'.

[andypat]

I think I fit type 4 but wholly resent being described as anything Eddie

[lilywhite]

the 'limp wrist' - good orienteer, can't sprint finish

[King Penguin]

The Pit of Poor Concentration, where the entry slope is longer than the climb back out.
All too often I foul up a decent run with one disasterous leg where brain seems to turn off. The drop into the pit is alarming and although it is followed by a recovery the damage is done and it is impossible to climb back to the previous positions.
Sunday for me was a classic combination of "slow starter" and "pit".
Not the same as a Lemming (starting too fast) as with the Lemming there is no recovery after the cliff.

[madmike]

The angry man - where the slope of error is followed by the flatline of 2 or 3 fastest splits followed by gradual tailing off

[madmike]

the 'limp wrist' - good orienteer, can't sprint finish

In which case there must also be: The strong wrist - can't orienteer for toffee and then flys down the run-in like Mr Bolt

[Gnitworp]

I know a few of them. If they had their way they'd scrap the rest of the competition and decide the race on the run-in.