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Jan Kocbach

Jan Kocbach is the founder of WorldofO.com - taking care of everything from site development to writing articles, photography and analysis.

Route to Christmas: Bonus 1 2010

Today we have a bonus leg in Route to Christmas – a leg from the final of the German Championships sprint. The main part of Route to Christmas 2010 is finished – but some of the legs which didn’t make it into the Top 24 were interesting enough to make ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 24 2010

What would be more fitting than to present a leg from The Course of the Year 2010 – Jukola – at the last day of Route to Christmas 2010? And as a big bonus, you get the winner interview from The Course of the Year 2010 – an interview with ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 23 2010

For the second last day in Route to Christmas 2010 we return to Czech Republic. The leg is from SAXBO 2010 in stony terrain in Czech Republic with quite some hills. Leg number 2 from the H21L course is chosen. The event was organized on May 1st 2010. Today we ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 22 2010

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Todays leg in Route to Christmas is from the World Championships middle distance final in Trondheim, Norway. This course has got a lot of negative remarks in the orienteering community, but it still contains some interesting legs. One of these legs is leg number 7 in the mens class, which ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 21 2010

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Todays leg in Route to Christmas is from the first competition in the Nordic Tour in Finland. The leg is not as long as the legs of the last days – it is rather chosen because this is the event I have found with the most GPS units applied [77(!) ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 20 2010

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Today Route to Christmas takes another big step forward by introducing GPS analysis of today’s route – including a pace map and a calculation of the optimum route based on the GPS data. On top of that, the leg is also a nice one for you: A very long one ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 19 2010

Todays leg in Route to Christmas from a hilly Czech terrain – giving interesting opportunities for the course planner. The chosen leg is leg number 11 in the H21E course from the Gigasport Èeský pohár organized at May 15th 2010. Thanks a lot to Eva Jurenikova for sending in a ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 18 2010

As Saturday is usually a quiet day here at World of O, we bring two legs in Route to Christmas today. Both are from the same competition in Switzerland in March this year – the second National competition. And we have some big names on the startlist – Fabian Hertner, ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 17 2010

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 ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 16 2010

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– 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 ...

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