I looked at the 2018 WMTBOC Long Distance Event from an MTB Coaching point of view to see what I could observe about this event, its lessons learned, and how it could be used to teach future American MTBO riders about World-Ranked Long Distance MTBO competition strategies and tactics.
Orienteering USA and the US MTBO Team needs to stop pretending that we do not need to be competitive at every World MTBO Championship. We DO need to be competitive. Here's why.
The effort to build mountain bike orienteering as an orienteering discipline is all but dead at the national level and not sending a team this year would be an acknowledgment that Orienteering USA's MTBO experiment has finally failed.
The sport of mountain bike orienteering (MTBO) is a mountain bike race where riders use a map and compass to navigate the course by finding orange/white flags (...
This year the World Mountain Bike Orienteering Championships (WMTBOC) will be held in Waldviertel, Austria, from August 5-13, 2018.
Centered around the Austr...
Get Lost Racing, a podcast that is attempting to master the endurance sports that make up off-road racing by learning what they are, how they work, and what mak...
The 2016 World Masters MTBO Championships took place in Kaunas, Lithuania from September 30th to October 2nd, 2016. The United States of America is represented ...
The 2016 World MTBO Championships have start in Portugal on July 26th. Currently, the United States of America is represented by a team of seven (7) riders from...
It was inevitable that Orienteering USA (OUSA) would turn their gaze towards Adventure Racing (AR). With budget shortfalls, no traction with developing a single...
