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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2024 is from a night orienteering race on the legendary urban Venezia map – the VeNotte 2024. Can you find a good way through the labyrinth of small roads and bridges? Thanks a lot for the tip and analysis, Luca Rosato!
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.
Here is the course setter Luca Rosato’s analysis:
In my opinion, the most intuitive choice is to point to the big square (editor’s comment: This is what the blue variant does, the second fastest split time) to split the leg into two: luckily, the weather condition helps to avoid the usual ”traffic” in the square’s north bridge for happy hour. This route can be good if well executed, specially noticing that “western” first part and western second parts are considerably shorter than other choices.
The keft choices (editor’s comment: Green variant above, the fastest route) has been detected by good runners and in average is more preferable than the central one if well executed I think that we have to consider that this race was taken in a foggy night, and, for the first time, the map was in scale 1:4000, so this leg was quite as long as A3 format. Runners arrived from a very fast and easy legs, so, probably, they were able to open the map only a little time before arriving to the control, so square or the provenience direction were considered as the best ways to solve the leg.
In addition, course setter Luca Rosato has made some measurements of the different variants to help understand the length of the different alternatives:
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!
