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Today Route to Christmas travels to Germany to a long, complex leg at the Junior European Cup. The 4th from JEC Long in the H20 course at October 10th 2015 is the chosen one.
Up or down? Going straight is not an option!
We are ready for day 6 in this year’s Route to Christmas – and thanks to this tip from Aaro Julkunen we got the 6th country at day 6: Germany. Please keep sending tips – preferably for routes outside Scandinavia and with enough GPS-data or RouteGadget-data available to do a proper analysis!
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). It is definitely not easy to find a very good solution here – especially if you are used to very different terrain types. But give it a try!
Location
You find other maps from the area in omaps.worldofo.com here. See also latest additions in 3DRerun from this area in order to learn more about this terrain type.
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 have solved this leg below. This illustration is made from RouteGadget with the original RouteToChristmas scripts – and might not be as readable as the newer 2DRerun illustrations. A quick analysis follows below along with a map with some alternatives drawn.
Based on the routes available, it was clearly fastest to go down to the right just after the control; drawn as D below. Riccardo Rancan who is the fastest of the ones drawing there route here is only 1 second behind the fastest on this leg – and he went down. Tobia Pezzati lost significant time by going left (between B and C drawn below) – and other runners going even more left lost even more time. The reason for right being faster is that (1) it is actually shorter and (2) you don’t take much climb.
The fight for victory was close at JEC Long: Tobia Pezzati (lost 1:37 at leg 4, finished 1:24 behind in 2nd) was only this control away from beating Thomas Curiger!
Density map
See below for a density map of some of the ones who have drawn their routes so far.
Additional information
You find the complete map in omaps.worldofo.com at this location.
Route to Christmas series
The Route to Christmas series at World of O has been very popular the last years – giving the readers the opportunity to do one Route Choice Challenge each day from December 1st until December 24th. If you have got any good legs in RouteGadget, GPSSeuranta or 3DRerun from 2015-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.
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!
