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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2024 is a long leg from the Finnish Championships long distance. This course is one of the Top 10-finishers in Course of the Year 2024.
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 each variant shown separately:
As you can see, this terrain is so fast that going fairly straight and avoiding the largest climbs (blue and yellow) is both the fastest – and the choice taken by most runners. Going around to the right on the road (red) is far too long, while using the road/paths on the left (green variants) is a quite good alternative (6th best leg time), although you probably lose 60-90 seconds on this route.
Chosen variant ordered by leg result
(Note that the total position shown in paranthesis is not correct)
| # | Name | Var | Time | Behind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Kirmula Miika (3rd / -316.8) | A | 18:37 | + 0:00 |
| 2. | Savolainen Eetu (4th / -326.1) | A | 18:59 | + 0:22 |
| 3. | Seppä Touko (5th / -396.8) | E | 19:04 | + 0:27 |
| 4. | Kirjavainen Santeri (14th / -430.5) | A | 19:51 | + 1:14 |
| 5. | Eerola Mikko (13th / -414.4) | E | 19:58 | + 1:21 |
| 6. | Ruohola Akseli (7th / -352.9) | F | 20:09 | + 1:32 |
| 7. | Nenonen Lauri (12th / -389.6) | A | 20:16 | + 1:39 |
| 8. | Ekström Niklas (11th / -380.3) | A | 20:22 | + 1:45 |
| 9. | Krivda Tomás (U) (1st / -150.9) | C | 20:30 | + 1:53 |
| 10. | Kymäläinen Severi (10th / -352.2) | E | 20:32 | + 1:55 |
| 10. | Aho Aaro (6th / -322.6) | E | 20:32 | + 1:55 |
| 12. | Pernu Lari (23rd / -455.7) | E | 20:37 | + 2:00 |
| 13. | Knuuttila Mikko (15th / -388.5) | A | 20:38 | + 2:01 |
| 14. | Silvennoinen Santeri (35th / -532.4) | E | 20:45 | + 2:08 |
| 15. | Raasakka Jussi (21st / -419.4) | A | 20:48 | + 2:11 |
| 15. | Kuukka Anton (19th / -415.1) | E | 20:48 | + 2:11 |
| 15. | Kotro Tuomas (20th / -415.6) | A | 20:48 | + 2:11 |
| 18. | Donner Jonny (16th / -367.8) | C | 21:00 | + 2:23 |
| 19. | Syrjäläinen Arttu (8th / -304.0) | E | 21:01 | + 2:24 |
| 20. | Arola Topias (25th / -436.8) | A | 21:06 | + 2:29 |
| 20. | Suutari Matti (29th / -448.6) | A | 21:06 | + 2:29 |
| 22. | Kangas Veli (18th / -378.3) | A | 21:14 | + 2:37 |
| 23. | Hirvikallio Joni (2nd / -3812.7) | D | 21:33 | + 2:56 |
| 24. | Ojala Aaro (28th / -413.8) | A | 21:35 | + 2:58 |
| 25. | Räsänen Markus (17th / -329.4) | E | 21:49 | + 3:12 |
| 26. | Tonder Aapo (37th / -481.9) | A | 22:01 | + 3:24 |
| 27. | Taivainen OlliMarkus (25th / -377.8) | C | 22:05 | + 3:28 |
| 28. | Henriksson Tobias (24th / -359.7) | A | 22:16 | + 3:39 |
| 29. | Huila Joona (34th / -421.9) | A | 22:28 | + 3:51 |
| 30. | Heinaro Einari (27th / -357.0) | C | 22:31 | + 3:54 |
| 31. | Heinonen Samuel (9th / -223.1) | A | 22:34 | + 3:57 |
| 32. | Peltola Samuli (33rd / -410.6) | A | 22:38 | + 4:01 |
| 33. | Lindqvist Arttu (38th / -439.7) | E | 22:48 | + 4:11 |
| 33. | Becaert Antoine (U) (31st / -390.8) | C | 22:48 | + 4:11 |
| 35. | Saikko Antti (22nd / -301.5) | C | 22:49 | + 4:12 |
| 36. | Vanhanen Konsta (40th / -463.0) | A | 22:51 | + 4:14 |
| 37. | Koskinen Roope (41st / -469.0) | C | 22:53 | + 4:16 |
| 38. | Virtanen Akseli (32nd / -385.1) | E | 22:58 | + 4:21 |
| 39. | Silvennoinen Oskari (30th / -356.0) | E | 23:21 | + 4:44 |
| 40. | Tulonen Benjamin (48th / -676.6) | A | 23:39 | + 5:02 |
| 41. | Salmenkylä Anton (42nd / -425.6) | D | 23:42 | + 5:05 |
| 42. | Sorsa Antti (39th / -407.7) | D | 23:46 | + 5:09 |
| 43. | Turkki Eero (47th / -463.7) | F | 24:36 | + 5:59 |
| 44. | Koivumäki Olli (44th / -428.7) | B | 24:46 | + 6:09 |
| 45. | Novak Lukas (U) (45th / -416.0) | F | 25:01 | + 6:24 |
| 46. | Ovaska Janne (36th / -267.0) | F | 25:20 | + 6:43 |
| 47. | Pompura Daniel (U) (43rd / -378.0) | F | 25:36 | + 6:59 |
| 48. | Mertanen Simo (46th / -298.9) | E | 27:18 | + 8:41 |
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!
