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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2024 is an interesting leg from the build-up to the European Championships in Hungary, at the Spring Spatarcus Cup Long distance race.
Note that this is again one of the nominations for Course of the Year 2024 – today is the last day to suggest nominations (already more than 40 courses nominated)
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. The routes are colored according to fastest split time on the leg, with the fastest routes in green and the slowest in red.
Below the routes are colored according to variant to give a clearer view of the how many runners chose each variant.
And with only the main routes drawn:
From the GPS-data, it was clearly faster to run to the left (blue), with the 10 fastest runner chosing the blue variant. The reason is probably the fact that the red route to the right is too long (around 850 meters longer), while the runnability is relatively good on the blue variant. Still, this is a bit surprising to me – I would have picked the red route as the fastest. Below I also included the elevation profile made using the Google elevation API (I don’t fully trust this, but it gives an indication). Note also the pace map at the bottom.
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 Christmas series
The Route to Christmas series is a pre-Christmas tradition at World of O – 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 GPSSeuranta, 3DRerun, Loggator or Livelox from 2024-competitions, or old forgotten ones which are still interesting, please email me the link at Jan@Kocbach.net, and I’ll consider including it in Route to Christmas if it looks good. Route to Christmas gets interesting due to YOUR 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!
