Thierry Gueorgiou found the password to access his webpage again – and now he is not only the “King of Middle”, but also the most popular at World of O. – Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees, after one year of desperate attempts, I finally managed to remember my password to update this page, Gueorgiou ...

What start interval would you prefer for the World Orienteering Championships Long distance? Fairness and Spectator-friendliness (and Media-friendliness) are the two main aspects here – and for now it may seem like Fairness is loosing the battle, and that we are going towards shorter start intervals rather than larger (ref. ...

In the last Route to Christmas of 2009 we have found a leg with Simone Niggli starring in the mens course. The chosen leg is leg number 7 in the HAL course from a national Swiss competition – the “Emmentaler OL” – organized by OLG Skandia at October 25th. Thanks ...

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is from Northern Norway – in a terrain which might have some relevancy for WOC in Trondheim in 2010. The chosen leg is leg number 6 in the Men 21 course from the regional championships in Ultralong distance (KM Ultralang) organized by Korgen IL ...

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is from Czech Republic – and this time a leg from a sprint competition is chosen. The chosen leg is leg number 3 in the H21E course from the Hummel sprint cup organized at September 5th 2009. The leg is as usually first provided ...

In many events, even at championships level, the results have been heavily influenced by runners not running completely independently. Co-working, and to some extent following is a major problem in orienteering, and has been for a long time. Different types of separating methods have been tried to separate runners to ...

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is from the Hungarian National RouteGadget Database. The chosen leg is leg number 17 in the men 21 Elite course from Hosszutavu Orszagos Bajnoksag at April 4th 2009. The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a look at ...

Do you think the women should run night-orienteering at 10mila? Alternativet.nu had an interesting article about the topic yesterday – suggesting that the women’s class in 10mila should have six legs and include night orienteering from 2011. Do you think the women are ready for that kind of challenge? The ...

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is from a night race in Norway. The race in question is the first leg in the 9.6 km long course from “Vinter-Tiomila – Longa Natten” (with mass start as far as I am aware of). The competition was held at November 18th 2009, ...

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is another leg from Finland. This time we have chosen a leg from the local race Espoorastit number 9 in Kellonummi. The chosen leg is leg number 6 in course 9 at June 2nd 2009 organized by Espoon Akilles. The leg is as usually ...