Comments on: World Cup Sprint Relay: Maps and Results

By: o-zeugs

o-zeugs — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 21:38:32 +0000

http://gustavbergman.se/?p=1401 Gustav Bergman is pretty harsh on the format.

By: o-zeugs

o-zeugs — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 00:03:59 +0000

The running momentum seemed pretty dominant and because of the outbalanced route choices it was not useful to take a different choice than the pack leader. To change this one would expect more forkings to influence the route choices alike at the 3rd control of the womens course. (For one forked control the one choice is favourable, for the other the other route is).

Would be intresting to see what the athletes themselves think about. They got a questionnaire from the organizers https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1FJH2g8WYjC8h87TmGKcea286LUZX1kXpW5Z24heNitk/formResponse (though some rhetorical questions already answered by the IOF Council)

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 21:38:34 +0000

In my opinion it was very very boring to watch (with gps only). Maybe it was cool for some spectators, because you see the runners and then hope after they disappeared that your favourite runners shows up first. But with easy course and gps its only boring. You always see who is in front and there arent many changes (except for misspunches wich you couldnt see because you didnt knew wich control needs to be taken by who.

The only thing that was maybe interesting was, to see how runners who almost catched up some pack in the front choose their next leg. If they just fallow or try an other choice to gain some time.