Comments on: Route to Christmas: Day 18 2016 http://news.worldofo.com/2016/12/18/route-to-christmas-day-18-2016/ Fri, 09 Jan 2026 09:51:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.39 By: Blair Trewin http://news.worldofo.com/2016/12/18/route-to-christmas-day-18-2016/#comment-126100 Sun, 18 Dec 2016 22:39:04 +0000 http://news.worldofo.com/?p=12712#comment-126100 This was indeed a great area and a good course. The visibility in a lot of parts of the map is lower than usual for Australia, and there are few features except the contours and termite mounds (mounds typically 1-1.5m high made by a species of ant, mapped here as brown dots) – quite fast if you stay in contact, but unforgiving if you lose it.

A World Cup race was held in 2000 in similar terrain (Sunset Mountain) about 5km away, and whilst most of the top runners ran well, there were a few very large time losses by people you wouldn’t expect them from (if I recall correctly Bjornar Valstad and Hanne Staff both made 5-10 minute errors).

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