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Route to Christmas: Bonus 4 2011

Another Bonus sprint leg – this time from the Latvian Championships sprint. The suggestion is from Kalvis Bruns: – When I was running this race, Leg 7 was quite a challenge for me. After the 6th control, I was just standing still for like 3-4sec and trying to scan the ...

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Route to Christmas: Bonus 3 2011

You asked for sprint legs – here you get one as the third bonus leg! This one is from the WMOC sprint qualifier in Hungary this year. The tip is provided by Aron Less: – WMOC Sprint Qualification in my opinion was one of the best sprint courses in Hungary ...

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Route to Christmas: Bonus 2 2011

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For today’s bonus leg in Route to Christmas we are again back to the Sandstone terrain in the Czech Republic and the course set by Czech National Team trainer Radek Novotny. The leg we consider today is a very short leg from control 1 to control 2 – the shortest ...

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Route to Christmas: Bonus 1 2011

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For today’s bonus leg in Route to Christmas we are back to the Sandstone terrain in the Czech Republic and the course set by Czech National Team trainer Radek Novotny. The leg we consider today is the leg from control 7 to control 8. The leg is as usually first ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 24 2011

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We have saved the best for last: Today’s Route to Christmas takes us to Sandstone terrain in the Czech Republic. We’ve got a fantastic course with a lot of route choice legs – and a short analysis by Czech National Team trainer Radek Novotny, who was also the course setter. ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 23 2011

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Todays leg in Route to Christmas is a leg from Great Britain – contributed by Adrian Bailey. Nearly the same leg is run in three different courses – and we offer “the solution” for all three courses below. The race was run on October 16th 2011 – close to Sheffield. ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 22 2011

Today’s Route to Christmas is staged in Kongsberg, Norway. This is no big competition – but rather a training event in the middle of May at the map Kjennerudvannet. Kongsberg is a Norwegian club with many good youth runners – and several previous World Championships medalists and other top runners ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 21 2011

In today’s edition of Route to Christmas we travel all the way over to New Zealand again. This time we are at the Northern Island close to Hawkes Bay. The terrain is quite complex with a lot of contours which are not straight forward to understand – and several paths ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 20 2011

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is from Latvia – from the long distance championships. This is very marshy terrain – as you often meet in Latvia – and a combination of small hills and some paths/roads makes this an interesting area from some route choice leg. The event was ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 19 2011

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a really long leg on a colorful Hungarian map. This is one of those maps where it is really tough to run on a hot day. No problem with heat this day – the race was run on February 27th. The chosen leg ...

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