Route To O-Season 2020: Day 12

Today’s leg in Route to O-Season 2020 is from Poland – from the Polish Long distance championships 2019. Thanks a lot to Fryderyk Pryjma for the tip!

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). Here is Fryderyk’s description of the terrain and leg:

It was a first leg and we did not have much time to prepare for it. It is a quite typical Polish mountainous terrain (close to Czech Border and the terrains for WOC 2021) with quite much forestry works and massive granite forms. The runnability on rocky ground was highly reduced.

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. As you can see, there are many different options for this leg. Several options are good, but it is definitely possible to go wrong. It seems like the main factor for success is to avoid/reduce running in steep hills – either up/down (for partly right option) or in the hillside (for partly left option). Except for that, exploit paths were possible. Any comments are of course very welcome.

Update from comments: Pawel provided overview of climb/length for each route:

Density map

See below for a density map of some of the ones who have drawn their routes so far (available during the day when some readers have drawn their route).

Additional information

You find the complete map in omaps.worldofo.com at this location.

Route to O-Season 2020 series

Route Choice Challenges while waiting for the real action: With the upcoming orienteering season indefinitely on hold in large parts of the the world due to COVID-19, regular orienteering route choice challenges may be one way to make sure those orienteering skills don’t get completely rusty. I’ll try to keep these coming daily, but need help from all of you out there to keep them coming and to keep up a certain quality.

Tips on good route choice challenges – either from races/trainings (even cancelled ones) or theoretical ones with accompanying analysis – are very welcome (please e-mail to jan@kocbach.net).

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!