Orienteering News

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is a leg from Great Britain – contributed by Adrian Bailey. Nearly the same leg is run in three different courses – and we offer “the solution” for all three courses below. The race was run on October 16th 2011 – close to Sheffield. ...

Today’s Route to Christmas is staged in Kongsberg, Norway. This is no big competition – but rather a training event in the middle of May at the map Kjennerudvannet. Kongsberg is a Norwegian club with many good youth runners – and several previous World Championships medalists and other top runners ...

In today’s edition of Route to Christmas we travel all the way over to New Zealand again. This time we are at the Northern Island close to Hawkes Bay. The terrain is quite complex with a lot of contours which are not straight forward to understand – and several paths ...

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is from Latvia – from the long distance championships. This is very marshy terrain – as you often meet in Latvia – and a combination of small hills and some paths/roads makes this an interesting area from some route choice leg. The event was ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a really long leg on a colorful Hungarian map. This is one of those maps where it is really tough to run on a hot day. No problem with heat this day – the race was run on February 27th. The chosen leg ...

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 ...

In today’s Route to Christmas we are off to the British Championships long distance organized close to Sheffield in the middle of May this year. Thanks to Dave Schorah for the tip. Course setters on this British Championships long distance were Oli and Jenny Johnson – both elite runners in ...

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is from Czech Republic – one of the countries which is really active with RouteGadget with a lot of interesting terrain for long route choice legs. This leg is from a regional competition in hilly terrain – and we are faced with a classical ...

For today’s Route to Christmas we travel far away from Europe – to Blue Mountain and the US Timetrails long distance. – Blue Mountain is lovely terrain. The forest floor is largely clear, with very little rock or vegetation underfoot for the most part, course setter Neil Dobbs explains. – ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a long leg up in the northern UK on Holme Fell. The event was used as World Champs selection races, and thus there were a lot of top runners present. The terrain is quite marshy, with a lot of contours to be fought. ...