We have got one of the highlights in this years Route to Christmas today – Karst terrain from Slovenia with comments from several of the runners and the route planner. Todays leg is leg number 7 in the M21E course from the last event in OO.cup 2009 on July 26th. ...
Read More »Route to Christmas: Day 14 2009
For todays leg in Route to Christmas we are returning to Switzerland. This time we are looking at leg 12 in the HAL course at the 5. National Swiss race in Hürital at August 30th 2009 organized by OLV Zug. Thanks to Marcel Schiess for the tip! The question this ...
Read More »Route to Christmas: Day 13 2009
Todays leg in Route to Christmas is from Austria. The chosen leg is leg number 17 in the H21E course the Austrian Championships middle distance at May 17th. This competition was named the best Austrian competition in 2009. Thanks to Martin Veitsberger for the tip! The leg is as usually ...
Read More »Route to Christmas: Day 12 2009
Todays leg in Route to Christmas is from Finland – the long 2nd leg in Men 21 in the Finnish Champs in Night-orienteering. The competition was held on October 3rd earlier this year. Thanks to Jonas Wolff for the tip! The leg is as usually first provided without routes – ...
Read More »Route to Christmas: Day 11 2009
Todays leg in Route to Christmas is a very long leg from the Australian Champs Long distance 2009 – organized by Bendigo Orienteers at October 3rd. The chosen leg is leg 16 in course 1. Thanks a lot for the tip to Andrew Lumsden! Here are some comments from Andrew ...
Read More »Route to Christmas: Day 10 2009
Todays leg in Route to Christmas is a long leg in alpine Swiss terrain. The event is the third Swiss selection race for the Junior World Champs and EYOC. Leg number 18 in the H20 course is chosen – starring Martin Hubmann, Matthias Kyburz and Florian Howald among others. Matthias ...
Read More »Fun and Interesting: Live Chat with the Champions
– My favorite map has to be detailed and sandy, Daniel Hubmann said in the Live Chat organized with Hubmann and Simone Niggli after them being awarded with “The Orienteering Achievement of 2009″ titles earlier yesterday. – I did really enjoy to run the EOC in 2008, this is one ...
Read More »Route to Christmas: Day 9 2009
Todays leg in Route to Christmas is from Norway – starring Daniel Renard and Jon Duncan among others. The leg is from the last day of “Pinseløpet” in Kongsberg. Actually we give you two legs from the same course today. The first leg presented is interesting because there is more ...
Read More »Niggli and Hubmann: Orienteering Achievement of 2009
Simone Niggli and Daniel Hubmann have been awarded with “The Orienteering Achievement of 2009″ titles in the womens and mens class, respectively! Among the women, Simone Niggli got an impressive 48% of the votes – winning ahead of Ida Bobach with 20% of the votes. In the mens class Daniel ...
Read More »Route to Christmas: Day 8 2009
Todays leg in Route to Christmas is a long leg in technical Karst terrain in Croatia – and we even have the course planners thoughts about the leg included. The leg is from the leg 10 in the M21E course from day 3 of Croatia Open on July 5th 2009. ...
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