3, No. 1 Scientific Journal of Orienteering, Vol. The meaning of lactic acid for the determination of the training speed in orienteering. Efficiency of map interpretation whilst fatigued. The behavior of heartrate and lactic acid in orienteers in treadmill ergometry and branch-specific running training.
Action theory seems to be a suitable theoretical concept for the description of orienteering.
Person, environment, and task may be differentiated as the determinants of the orienteering action, the structure may be described as a triadic cycle. Analysis of a competition includes control and evaluation of the action. Attributional processes within the evaluation build up cognitive schemes, e.g. of own abilities and these self-concepts influence the attribution of mistakes. Therefore, a confident interpretation has to be carried out. Former methodological approaches to the interpretation of orienteering did not clarify the reasons for time loss by mistakes.