Comments on: Route to Christmas: Day 10 2013 http://news.worldofo.com/2013/12/10/route-to-christmas-day-10-2013/ Fri, 09 Jan 2026 09:51:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.39 By: Steffen http://news.worldofo.com/2013/12/10/route-to-christmas-day-10-2013/#comment-104787 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 20:50:35 +0000 http://news.worldofo.com/?p=6958#comment-104787 Lektion 1 for running a sprint, read the controll description. Special when you the control is placed at a impassable object. But I think main problem about controls like this is that many people think sprint orienteering means fast running with very easy orienteering.

]]> By: Jan Kocbach http://news.worldofo.com/2013/12/10/route-to-christmas-day-10-2013/#comment-104767 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 15:30:11 +0000 http://news.worldofo.com/?p=6958#comment-104767 In my point of view, fairness is the most important parameter. And this at least does not influence on the fairness.

]]> By: Knut Mathisen http://news.worldofo.com/2013/12/10/route-to-christmas-day-10-2013/#comment-104766 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 15:27:22 +0000 http://news.worldofo.com/?p=6958#comment-104766 The discussion on what is acceptable or even recommended in sprint orienteering continues. The articial hurdles have, after many initial complaints, become widely acceptly. This variant I don’t like personally, everything you need to pick out the route-choice should be map-details. Note that this also applies to forest orienteering, where some course setters put controls above instead of below cliffs to punish the many elite orienteerers who only use the control description to check codes (or not at all). I see no good reason why we could not adapt the red dot except that it would perhaps give colour-blinds like Holger Hott another disadvantage.

]]> By: Terje Mathisen http://news.worldofo.com/2013/12/10/route-to-christmas-day-10-2013/#comment-104763 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 13:55:45 +0000 http://news.worldofo.com/?p=6958#comment-104763 I’m one of the guys who complained even though I immediately recognized that this was a possible trap and checked the control description before deciding to go left. I much prefer the Ski-O style with a little red dot showing exactly where the control is located!

I agree with Jan that this does add another set of problems to the runners, and that a good orienteer should read the control description along with the course, the main/only problem is the fact that the sequence is totally opposite to regular/forest orienteering where you study the control sheet while approaching the control circle, instead of before you even start the leg.

If I was going to specialize in Sprint (not very likely with a single win to my name, vs a few hundred in forest races. :-(), I would have to start specific sprint training, particularly detailed planning of the next leg while running the previous one.

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