Route to Christmas: Day 14
Todays leg is leg 8 from the long distance at the Junior World Orienteering Champs in Australia this year. The route choice drawing + splits is prepared by Christian Bobach – thanks a lot to Christian! - Australian granit terrains kan make som realy good route choice legs – like the 8th leg on this years long distance at JWOC in Australia, Christian commented after reading Neil Barr’s comment on Route to Christmas Day 9: - None of the events on our more technical granite and mining terrains produced interesting route choice outcomes..
As you can see below – Christian run this leg – and did not choose the optimal route choice…
First take a look at the map without routes – and think about how you would attack this leg (if the image is too small, you may click on it to get it larger – click again to make it small again):
Then you can take a look at how the runners who have drawn their route choice solved this leg:
Full results: JWOC 2007 page.
Yes, one of the best legs on an Australian course in 2008. JWOC wasn’t on our Gadget so I didn’t report it. I ran the same leg in the spectator race and made the same sub-optimal choice as Christian!