World of O News
Today’s leg in Route to O-Season 2020 is another leg from JWOC 2013 Long which we already visited on day 50. Today we take a look at the 19th leg in the men’s course.
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):
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.
Here is the text from World of O’s analysis back in 2013:
The leg to number 19 deserves a separate illustration (see to the right). Again a lot of options – and very clear that the routes going right like Parfianowicz and Schneider are the fastest – although Melsom again runs fast on the direct route. It is surprising how many runners take the left option here though.
To add some insight to the text from 2013: Going to the left is slower because you need to run quite steep downhill without paths, whereas the choices to the right (and partly the direct choice) makes it possible to run less steep downhill and use more paths.
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!
