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Not made your holiday plans yet? See the full list of top multiday-races with map samples – use Google Wave to add your recommendations – and see my own personal top picks. For most events it is still not too late to register, although registration prices have increased for some events already.
In the Top O-Travel Picks-series of articles we will take a look at the most interesting events of 2010 for travelers – month by month – to guide you through the fixture list. Focus is on multiday-events and World Ranking events, as these are events which typically attract traveling orienteers.
Map samples
A map says more than 1000 words – at least for an orienteer. Here you see map samples for July 2010 events uploaded by the organizers.
| EYOC 2010 Spain – 2010-07-01  |
North American Orienteering Championships Canada – 2010-07-01  |
Kainuu Orienteering Week Finland – 2010-07-05  |
| Barebones 2010 Whistler Canada – 2010-07-09  |
XXXII Ilvesteade Estonia – 2010-07-09  |
Fjord-O: Nordvestgaloppen 2010 Norway – 2010-07-14  |
| Croatia open 2010 Croatia – 2010-07-14  |
Xtremor 2010 Slovenia – 2010-07-17  |
Kopaonik open 2010 Serbia – 2010-07-21  |
| WUOC-Tour (Public races) Sweden – 2010-07-21  |
O-Ringen Örebro 2010 Sweden – 2010-07-22  |
Kustry 2010 Czech Republic – 2010-07-23  |
| 3 Jours de Franche-COmté France – 2010-07-23  |
3. Tour O Swiss 2010 Switzerland – 2010-07-24  |
OO.cup/2010 Slovenia – 2010-07-24  |
| Kvarken Orienteering Festival Finland – 2010-07-29  |
Personal Picks
Choosing just a few events out of all the great events in July 2010 is no easy task. Instead of just picking a few events, I picked out the events I would have liked to travel to (quite a few), and stated my very personal reasons for why I would have liked to travel there. As an experiment, I embedded my personal picks in a Google Wave, where anyone with a Google Wave account can add comments (thus what you see below might not be my original text anymore). Click here to get a Google Wave account.
[wave id=”googlewave.com!w+L2XKGKoQA”]All multiday events in July 2010 from World of O Calendar are shown in the table below – for all events see the World of O Calendar.
| 01.07 | – | 04.07 | EYOC 2010 | Spain | |
| 01.07 | – | 04.07 |  |
North American Orienteering Championships | Canada |
| 02.07 | – | 04.07 | |
Kapa 3-days | Latvia |
| 04.07 | – | 10.07 | |
JWOC 2010 TOUR | Denmark |
| 05.07 | – | 10.07 | Kainuu Orienteering Week | Finland | |
| 06.07 | – | 11.07 | Sørlandsgaloppen 2010 | Norway | |
| 09.07 | – | 13.07 | |
Barebones 2010 Whistler | Canada |
| 09.07 | – | 11.07 | XXXII Ilvesteade | Estonia | |
| 14.07 | – | 18.07 | Fjord-O: Nordvestgaloppen 2010 | Norway | |
| 14.07 | – | 19.07 | Croatia open 2010 | Croatia | |
| 15.07 | – | 17.07 | Lasoe 3-days | Denmark | |
| 17.07 | – | 19.07 | Xtremor 2010 | Slovenia | |
| 21.07 | – | 25.07 | |
Kopaonik open 2010 | Serbia |
| 21.07 | – | 23.07 | WUOC-Tour (Public races) | Sweden | |
| 21.07 | – | 25.07 | Hungaria Cup 2010 | Hungary | |
| 22.07 | – | 30.07 | |
O-Ringen Örebro 2010 | Sweden |
| 23.07 | – | 25.07 | Kustry 2010 | Czech Republic | |
| 23.07 | – | 25.07 | 3 Jours de Franche-COmté | France | |
| 24.07 | – | 31.07 | 3. Tour O Swiss 2010 | Switzerland | |
| 24.07 | – | 28.07 | OO.cup/2010 | Slovenia | |
| 29.07 | – | 31.07 | Kvarken Orienteering Festival | Finland | |
| 31.07 | – | 06.08 | World Masters Orienteering Championship WMOC 2010 | Switzerland |
Your favorite?
Are there important events missing in this overview? What is your personal favorite orienteering event in June 2010? Please use the Wave above or the comments to give additional information to the readers.
Disclaimer: I am in the organizing committee of Fjord-O: Nordvestgaloppen. OOCup/Xtremor and Fjord-O: Nordvestgaloppen have paid for sponsored links at World of O during the last year. I have an agreement with EYOC 2010 to help them with their live services during and ahead of the event.
