Comments on: Route To O-Season 2020: Day 24

By: Brian Johnston

Brian Johnston — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 20:19:25 +0000

Day 24–still loving these.
It is wonderful to see a variety of maps and courses as well as plan routes. Good for the brain to focus on orienteering when we must stay home. I’ve also learnt from comparing my route choice to the many other routes choices. Much appreciated.

By: Knut Wiig Mathisen

Knut Wiig Mathisen — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 14:01:53 +0000

Interesting leg, the key is clearly the contour interval, which is 5 m and not 2 or 2.5 m as in most sprint maps. I selected a variant of A which would be fine if the extra climb compared to F was less than approx (782-657)/7 = 17.9 m. (1 meter climb corresponds approximately to 7 meter flat running). Climb difference is actually close to 30 m (9 vs 3 contours to cross), and thus A should be ca (30-18)*7/5=17 s slower than F. By coincident this is exactly the time difference between the best two times on F (HJW) and A (GW). Unfortunately applying the same technique to all runners/route-choices gives a more “blurred” picture due to difference in running speed, time used/wasted on map reading/hesitation and runnability. Due to simple straight road running, perhaps even E is the best route-choice?

By: Jan Kocbach

Jan Kocbach — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 12:33:24 +0000

Contour interval 5 meter, see the intro to the leg :)

By: Lukas

Lukas — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 12:29:51 +0000

What was the equidistance of the map? 2m or 5m?