World of O News
The runners are welcomed with interesting and varied courses in the Swiss Jura forest in today’s World Cup middle distance. The start of the courses is technical – although there are paths to help with the orienteering. With the partly dense forest with variable runnability, accurate orienteering and direction running is required in order to run mistake-free. Above you see the first 8 controls in the mens course.
The second part of the courses is set in a different terrain type – requiring a different style of orienteering. While the terrain forces you to keep the speed down in the first part, the challenge in the second part of the course is to speed up while still keeping the focus. This is probably the part of the race where the race will be decided – for example the 10th control in the mens course can be quite tricky. The women have less 0f this middle part.
The last part of the courses is very steep downhill – with little orienteering technical challenges. Here all is about letting the legs run while keeping that little bit of concentration needed to find the controls.
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