Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is the longest so far. Yet again we visit Switzerland – the Swiss are among the very best both at using Routegadget and at sending suggestions about legs for Route to Christmas. It seems like it is no coincidence that Switzerland is the world’s ...

– I think that this leg is the best in any event I have run at in the past year. That was the first line in a very nice email which arrived in the mailbox yesterday evening. – It was at “Caw fell”, day 4 of the Lakes 5 Day ...

Today we are back to Switzerland for some hilly terrain in the Swiss test races this spring. The chosen event for today is the 4th National Swiss event of the year organized on May 9th 2010. There are interesting legs in several of the courses – but the category H18 ...

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is another long leg from Czech Republic. This actually looks like a training course, but it still has an interesting long leg for which many runners have drawn their route. The chosen leg is number 11 in a course which consists of some long ...

This very long leg from the Hungarian Sprint Championships has deserved its spot in the 2010 edition of Route to Christmas due to the many different route choice options and the complexity in finding the best route. The leg was suggested by the controller for the event – Aron Less. ...

Taking the Route to Christmas series one step further, I have now set up a way to analyze your thoughts about the optimal route on the legs presented in Route to Christmas. This is done through “density maps” in which one can easily see which route the orienteering community thinks ...

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is from Czech Republic – a long leg in hilly terrain. To pick a route on a long leg in this kind of terrain usually depends on how strong you are up the hills compared to running flat around. In addition there may be ...

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is leg from Hungary – a variant of the good old over-or-around-the-hill problem. The chosen leg is leg number 26 in the Men 21E course from the OCSB event at October 23rd 2010. The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you ...

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is a leg from the United States with several routechoice options. The competition is the 31st West Point Orienteering Meet on May 2nd 2010, and control 2 in the blue course is chosen. This is one of those legs where you feel you have ...

Olav Lundanes and Simone Niggli have been awarded with “The Orienteering Achievement of 2010″ titles in the mens and womens class, respectively! Among the men Olav Lundanes got an impressive 28.5% of the votes – more than twice as many as Daniel Hubmann – last years winner – in second ...