The monsterleg to the second control in this years Finnish night champs (Karkkila) is already famous as it marked the start of one of the many interesting fights between the two best male orienteers in 2008 – Thierry Gueorgiou and Matthias Merz (thanks to “Mr. Routegadget”, Jarkko Ryyppö, for the ...

Did you find the article on Thierry Gueorgiou’s “Full speed – no mistake” technique (Gueorgiou’s story part II) interesting? In that case, this follow-up article about “Analyzing your map reading in orienteering” by Martin Lerjen should interest you a lot. This article compares different map reading technique – one of ...

Todays leg is an interesting leg from the WCOC long distance event in Canada at 8th of October 2007 (Thanks to Louise Osram for the tip!). Courses 10 (elite male) and 9 (elite women/35+ men/19- men) had the same leg. First take a look at the map without routes – ...

Todays leg is from the unofficial Norwegian Youth Champs 2006 (Hovedløpet) in Norway – north of Trondheim. Leg 14 in the oldest category – H16 – is chosen. This leg is not exceptionally difficult nor long – but it is interesting to note how it is attacked by the coming ...

Todays leg is leg 8 from the long distance at the Junior World Orienteering Champs in Australia this year. The route choice drawing + splits is prepared by Christian Bobach – thanks a lot to Christian! – Australian granit terrains kan make som realy good route choice legs – like ...

Todays leg is leg 11 in category H21E from the Latvian race “Kurzemes Pavasaris” in Garâ at April 7th 2007. Note that not all the best runners have drawn their route choice – route choices and times given here are relative to the ones who have drawn their route. Thank ...

Todays leg is leg 17 in HE from the Swiss Champs Long Distance 2006 in Crans-Montana at August 20th 2006 with OLG Wallis / CO Valais as organizers. First take a look at the map without routes – and think about how you would attack this leg (if the image ...

Orienteering without borders is the motto of the Thermenland Open orienteering event which was initiated three years ago as a cross-border cooperation project between three orienteering clubs in Slovenia, Hungary and Austria. An additional element to this project was the participation of athletes from Kenya at this year’s Thermenland Open ...

Todays leg is leg 2 in HE from the Swiss Champs Long Distance 2006 in Crans-Montana at August 20th 2006 with OLG Wallis / CO Valais as organizers. First take a look at the map without routes – and think about how you would attack this leg (if the image ...

– Thierry, you are one of the best map readers I have ever seen. But if you want to become the best, you must change your way of orienteering. You have to start building much simpler mental images of the terrain if you want to become faster. This was the ...