Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a very interesting Runners’ Choice challenge from Sprintliga Oslo, with extensive analysis provided by Oskar Størmer. In my opinion this is how a Knock Out Sprint can be made truly interesting, both for athletes and TV. Future course setters and stake holders: Take a ...
Read More »Route to Christmas: Day 22 2020
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is from Estonia! The chosen leg is the first leg from the men elite course at the Suunto Games middle distance race at September 7th this year. Thanks a lot to course setter Markus Puusepp for the tip and the analysis. [PS! I still ...
Read More »Route to Christmas: Day 21 2020
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is another leg from the chasing start final of the legendary night orienteering cup “Harry Lagerts Nattcup” in Oslo – a race which was already featured on Day 11. Thanks a lot to Søren Jonsson for the tip, and for course setter Kenneth Buch for pointing out this leg ...
Read More »Route to Christmas: Day 20 2020
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a leg from the second day of the Swedish 3-day race Kvarnsjötrippeln with some top names on the start list. The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a look at it and think about how you would attack this ...
Read More »Route to Christmas: Day 19 2020
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a really nice route choice leg from Czech Republic! The chosen leg is leg 11 from the Czech Long Distance Championships in september. The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a look at it and think about ...
Read More »Route to Christmas: Day 18 2020
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2020 is from Portugal. This time we travel to a junior national team training camp where the athletes ran a competition on an interesting course. Thanks a lot to Tomás Lima for the tip and providing some analysis. Here is some background information from Lima: ...
Read More »Route to Christmas: Day 17 2020
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2020 is leg 6 in the M21 course from Norwegian Championships Ultralong. Thanks a lot to Tibor Vari for the tip! The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a look at it and think about how you would attack ...
Read More »Route to Christmas: Day 16 2020
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2020 is leg 18 in the Leg course from Polish Championships Long at Nodate. Thanks a lot to Wojciech Dwojak for the tip and some background info and analysis of the leg. Dwojak was advisor for the event, while Bartlomiej Mazan was course setter. From the ...
Read More »Route to Christmas: Day 15 2020
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2020 is from a Finnish night orienteering competition – the first race in the Kurko Cup organized last month. The chosen leg is the first leg out from the start – organized as a mass start. Thanks a lot to Arttu Syrjäläinen for the tip! Arttu ...
Read More »Route to Christmas: Day 14 2020
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is from the final stage from the Lapland O Week – far up north in Finland. Thanks a lot to Antti Vainio for the tip! The chosen leg is the leg from control 17 to 18 quite late on the long course. The leg is as usually ...
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