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Route To O-Season 2020: Day 25

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Today we again travel to the country where next year’s World Orienteering Championships is to be organized: The Czech Republic. The year is 2011, and the race is a long distance chasing start World Cup race in the Liberec area. Thanks a lot to John Chandler for the tip and ...

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Route To O-Season 2020: Day 24

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Today’s leg in Route to O-Season 2020 is another urban leg – this time a long leg from the Citysprint at Bergen Sprint Camp back in 2017. The chosen leg is leg number 4 which was run in both the men and women’s class. Comment on Route to O-Season: Already ...

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Route To O-Season 2020: Day 23

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Today’s leg in Route to O-Season 2020 is a small tribute to the 25 years anniversary of PWT, as the first PWT events were held all the way back in 1996. This particular leg is from the second PWT stage in the PWT China tour in 2016, in Beijing Garden Expo ...

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Route To O-Season 2020: Day 22

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Today’s leg in Route to O-Season 2020 takes us back to another epic long route choice leg from a World Orienteering Championships: The longest leg in the women’s WOC 2010 Long distance in Trondheim, Norway. What a spread in the chosen routes! The leg is as usually first provided without ...

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Route To O-Season 2020: Day 21

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Today’s leg in Route to O-Season 2020 is a fresh leg from a contactless middle distance “race” organized by Team Latvia this week. Thanks a lot to Janis Tamuzs for the tip and the analysis! Here is Janis’ intro to the leg: During the quarantine, Team Latvia, similar to orienteers all ...

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Route To O-Season 2020: Day 20

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Today’s leg in Route to O-Season 2020 takes us back to WOC 2017 in Estonia. The tip comes from Markus Puusepp who notes that legs from the WOC 2017 women’s course have not been featured in Route to Christmas, and would therefore be a good fit for Route to O-Season ...

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Route To O-Season 2020: Day 19

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Today’s leg in Route to O-Season 2020 is one of the real highlights of the long legs in World Orienteering Championships the last 15 years: The long leg in the men’s class from WOC 2008 in Czech Republic.  Thanks a lot to Tomas Sokol for the tip and for route choice ...

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Route To O-Season 2020: Day 18

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Today’s leg in Route to O-Season 2020 is a long, long leg from Italy back in 2008:  The 12th leg in the Highlands Open Long 2008 in the M21 class. Note: Good suggestions for legs – also/especially nice, historic routechoice legs from WOC/EOC/World Cup with accompanying analysis, are welcome (and needed; with ...

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Route To O-Season 2020: Day 17

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Today’s leg in Route to O-Season 2020 is another classic long leg from a World Orienteering Championships. This time we travel back in time to WOC 2009 in Hungary. The chosen leg is leg 2 in the M21 course from WOC 2009 Long. Update Day 15 Long Leg WOC 2006 ...

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Route To O-Season 2020: Day 16

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Today’s leg in Route to O-Season is another oldie: Leg 18 from the 6th Nationaler Baselbieter OL back in 2008 which was features in Route to Christmas in 2008 – but without the possibility to draw your own route and without a properly rotated map sample. Now you’ve got that ...

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