Today’s edition of “January Classics” is a real Classic: Älgdrevet 1977.  An article about the race in the Swedish magazine Skogsport in 1979 described the winner Sigurd Dæhli’s race as “Världens bästa lopp på världens bästa bana” (“The best race in the world on the best course”). Thanks a lot ...

Today’s entry in “January Classics” is a nice long distance race in Sweden in – the European Championships long distance final 2012 in Skattungbyn, Sweden. A tough long distance with many long legs with route choice options. For this race there is a full GPS- and split time analysis available ...

One of the great classic races is the WOC classic in the USA in 1993 – won by Danish Allan Mogensen. The map is called ‘Surebridge mountain’ – and it is one of the maps featured in the sleeping project “101 Orienteering Maps you should run on before you die”. ...

Start the preparations for Jukola 2014: Here are two different maps of the Jukola 2014 terrain – both made based on LIDAR (laser data). As a bonus a “RunningWild” with a 11 km long course and a Webroute for a hypothetical first leg is also included. Complete map comparison – ...

– One of the best and most varied Long distance courses I have run. Nice terrain and interesting orienteering all the way, is Mats Troeng’s comment about the EOC Long Distance Final in 2008. Today’s edition of January Classics takes us to Latvia! From the official EOC 2008 webpage: The ...

Another classic WOC Long distance race today – the WOC long distance in Scotland in 1999. The map with course is found at the O-zeugs webpage. A PDF-booklet with the route choices of the top finishers and some history about the race can be found here (found in this thread ...

New year – new series! January is usually a “slow month” within orienteering, so why not beef it up a bit? Each day a new classic course (what today is called long distance) is featured – starting with the WOC long distance course from 1991 in Marianske Lazne, Czechoslovakia today. ...