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 ever, Aron wrote in an email, suggesting the current Route to Christmas leg.

– Please note that the area is very complex and might look very different in another competition, since certain gates can be opened or closed arbitrarily, Less continues.

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). Note that I took a leg in the M35 course instead of the suggested one in the M40 course due to more fast runner drawing their routes here.

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. No time for any big analyses today – I’m enjoying my well deserved Christmas vacations:) I just quickly note that the left variant seems to be significantly slower based on the ones drawing their routes. If you know or see more from the routes – please add a comment!

Complete map in Omaps.worldofo.com

You find the complete map and Routegadget info in omaps.worldofo.com at this location.

Omaps.worldofo.com

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.