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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a night orientering leg from the Swiss night orienteering championships, organized in October.
The terrain does maybe not look that exciting, but this is still an interesting leg, straight out from the start. 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. As you can see, the ones who dared to pass the finish area on the way to the first control – dropping down straight out from the finish – where the ones who performed best on this leg. Quite a few tried to find a good route through the green, but that seemed to be really slow.
Below the routes are colored according to variant to give a clearer view of the how many runners chose each variant. 6 of the 7 fastest runners on this leg ran down, but it was possible to run quite well to the right as well, as seen by Tino Polsini’s time that was only 20 seconds slower than the fastest split time on the leg.
Here is the route of the fastest runner on each of the four variants, including a coarse elevation profile from Google Elevation below.
Finally a look at the pace on the different routes. Here you can clearly see that there are no very slow parts on the route down and up again, while there are on the other variants (especially on the one going straight, as expected).
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!
