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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is from the Elitserien race in Bonäs in June this year. This is a race for which there was full GPS tracking for 50 runners, and thus there are interesting analysis possibilities. Thanks to Eva Jurenikova for the tip.
This was a middle distance race, and there were not many interesting route choice legs. The chosen leg is a very short – but still very interesting leg. And it proved to be quite decisive in the race.
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).
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.
– There was one route choice leg in the middle distance race at Elitserien in Bonäs which was quite decisive for the final result, Eva Jurenikova wrote in her e-mail.
As you can see from the illustration below, it was significantly faster to run left on this leg with all the fast times having been run left. You save height, there is a lot path when going left, and the marsh was quite wet on the direct route.
Comparing Olav Lundanes (fastest left) with Jerker Lysell (fastest direct), you see that Lysell looses a lot of time both in the downhill, in the marsh and in the uphill – the downhill and marsh being nearly as slow as the uphill. If the downhill would not have been that steep, the time loss had probably been reduced by 15-20%.
The women had the same leg – and the trend is exactly the same. The six fastest women run on the leg have taken the left route. For the women there are some clear time losses by taking the right variant.
Note! You can open the analysis yourself in 2DRerun here (does not work in Internet Explorer – please use Google Chrome or Firefox).
Complete map in Omaps.worldofo.com
You find the complete map and Routegadget info in omaps.worldofo.com at this location.
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The ‘Route to Christmas’ series at World of O has been very popular the last years – and I’ve therefore decided to continue the series this Christmas as well. If you have got any good legs in RouteGadget from 2011-competitions – or old forgotten ones which are still interesting – please email me the link at Jan@Kocbach.net, and I’ll include it in Route to Christmas if it looks good. Route to Christmas will not be interesting if YOU don’t contribute.
There will be no analysis about the best routechoice for each leg – you can provide that yourself in the comments or in the Webroute. 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!
