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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2025 is a long leg from one of the highlights on this year’s World Cup calendar – the long distance race in Idre.
There were actually several interesting legs on this course. Here we chose the last of the long legs as the same leg was featured both in the men’s and women’s class, and as it offered quite a few different routechoices. 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 (first the men, then the women). The routes are colored according to fastest split time on the leg, with the fastest routes in green and the slowest in red. Both for the men and the women the fastest alternative was to move along the slope while staying at roughly the same elevation, although the fastest women climbed a few meters more. Going over the top lost you a lot of time both in the men’s and women’s class, but as often is the case it was worse in the women’s class. It is also interesting to see that in the women’s class some chose to run all the way around on the road to the left, actually not losing that much time.
Below the routes are colored according to variant to give a clearer view of the how many runners chose each variant – again first the men then the women.
Finally a look at the fastest runner on each variant in the men’s class, along with a coarse elevation profile from Google Elevation.
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 2025-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!
