Limiting distances for Juniors?
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Limiting distances for Juniors?
Distance running events held under Athletics regulations will limit the distance to be run by juniors to stop the wee souls straining things. Hillrunning does the same. Is there any guideline or regulation in orienteering? I cant find anything on the BOF website.
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Re: Limiting distances for Juniors?
Not that I have ever seen although the UKCC coaching courses cover this as a danger (could constitute abuse in worst cases) in overtraining in particular.
Orienteering distances are regulated by planning guidlines (to produce winning times) and 6Km in north Ebor land could take as long and be as (if not more) physically demanding than 18 Km in east WAOC land (no offence intended to either club or your excellent areas just illustrating a point); therefore, just regulating distance could be unhelpful.
Kids develop at different rates and different ages so parents/coaches need to be pragmatic about what course they run and how much training they do (not just kids as I constantly remind an M35 that I coach that 9 maximal effort sessions every week is not the recipie for success!).
Most kids struggle with the TD rather than the distance when they first move up a course (not 20 to 21s of course cos 20s tend to be pretty good technically).
bit of a ramble but hope that's helpful
Orienteering distances are regulated by planning guidlines (to produce winning times) and 6Km in north Ebor land could take as long and be as (if not more) physically demanding than 18 Km in east WAOC land (no offence intended to either club or your excellent areas just illustrating a point); therefore, just regulating distance could be unhelpful.
Kids develop at different rates and different ages so parents/coaches need to be pragmatic about what course they run and how much training they do (not just kids as I constantly remind an M35 that I coach that 9 maximal effort sessions every week is not the recipie for success!).
Most kids struggle with the TD rather than the distance when they first move up a course (not 20 to 21s of course cos 20s tend to be pretty good technically).
bit of a ramble but hope that's helpful
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Re: Limiting distances for Juniors?
I did find it a bit of a shock recently to discover that after Light Green my son will be expected to progress straight to Blue in League events and other competitions (moving up from M14 to M16 I think), whilst my daughter can move to Green.
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Re: Limiting distances for Juniors?
HarryO wrote:I did find it a bit of a shock recently to discover that after Light Green my son will be expected to progress straight to Blue in League events and other competitions (moving up from M14 to M16 I think), whilst my daughter can move to Green.
I too had the same concerns as HarryO, but now that my son has just become M16 this year, he really seems to be coping okay on blue courses. He started doing green courses about half way through last year, and did a couple of blues towards the end of the year. It is quite surprising how well they can cope.
However i do have some reservations about him tackling the M16A at the JK and the BOC in much more technical terrain and did suggest he have a go at the M21V instead, but he was adamant that he wanted to do the longer M16A course. In a way it is a shame that the M16B is the same course at the M14A - I'd like to see it as something in between the two.
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Re: Limiting distances for Juniors?
I am glad that some juniors appear to cope well with the move to M16 but I know of others who are not so lucky and develop overuse injuries. How they will cope is very much down to the individual's stage of development and many 14 year olds may be at their peak growth rate at the time they are expected to make this increase in distance. It seems strange that BOF encourages their coaches to take particular care of young people's physical development at this stage, and yet has a competition structure which shows no regard for this.
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Re: Limiting distances for Juniors?
Miner wrote:I am glad that some juniors appear to cope well with the move to M16 but I know of others who are not so lucky and develop overuse injuries. How they will cope is very much down to the individual's stage of development and many 14 year olds may be at their peak growth rate at the time they are expected to make this increase in distance. It seems strange that BOF encourages their coaches to take particular care of young people's physical development at this stage, and yet has a competition structure which shows no regard for this.
Is that not the whole idea behind ageless colour courses for juniors?
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