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Todays leg in Route to Christmas is from Czech Republic – one of the countries which is really active with RouteGadget with a lot of interesting terrain for long route choice legs. This leg is from a regional competition in hilly terrain – and we are faced with a classical “direct or around” question.
The leg in question is leg number 12 in the Men 21A course from the 8. kolo VèP at May 28th this year. This is typical continental terrain with good runnability in the white forest. The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a look at it and think about how you would attack this leg (if the image is too small, you may click on it to get it larger):
Webroute
Next you can draw your own route using the ‘Webroute’ below. Think through how you would attack this leg, and draw the route you would have made. Some comments about why you would choose a certain route are always nice for the other readers.
Then you can take a look at how the runners who have drawn their route choice solved this leg. I asked Czech National Team trainer Radek Novotny to comment on this leg, and this is his short comment:
This was a regional race and as you can see from the total time, the level of the runners differes a lot. But the detour was obviously too long in this case. Drobnik is quite fit to loose so much time to Polak.
Thus, even if you save a lot of height by running around, this is just too long.
PS! If you wait a few days more, you’ll see a lot more interesting leg from Czech Republic, where I have got a much longer analysis from Novotny. So come back every day until Christmas….
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The ‘Route to Christmas’ series at World of O has been very popular the last years – and I’ve therefore decided to continue the series this Christmas as well. If you have got any good legs in RouteGadget from 2011-competitions – or old forgotten ones which are still interesting – please email me the link at Jan@Kocbach.net, and I’ll include it in Route to Christmas if it looks good. Route to Christmas will not be interesting if YOU don’t contribute.
There will be no analysis about the best routechoice for each leg – you can provide that yourself in the comments or in the Webroute. Not all legs are taken for the interesting routechoice alternatives – some are also taken because the map is interesting – or because it is not straightforward to see what to do on a certain leg. Any comments are welcome – especially if you ran the event chosen for todays leg!
Note that there may be some errors in the Routegadget data (sometimes somebody draws a route for another runner just for fun). Please add a comment below if you spot en error.
