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Route to Christmas: Day 20 2018

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is from the Baltic Championships Long in Latvia near the city of Rēzekne on the Tartaks lake map. This is fascinating terrain, and a great course with many nice and long route choices made this a day to remember. The chosen leg is the 19th leg ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 19 2018

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a really intricate sprint leg from Czech Republic – which includes some interesting bridge crossings. The chosen leg is leg 5 in the M21 course from a World Ranking race in Plzen in May 2018. Thanks a lot to Ales Henja for the tip, ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 18 2018

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a sprint leg – this time from one of the most important sprint races of the year, the European Championships Sprint in Switzerland. The chosen leg is used both in the men’s and the women’s class – for the men it is the ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 17 2018

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a long leg from one of this year’s best long distance courses: The Swedish Championships long distance. The chosen leg is the 7th leg which was suggested by Ruslan Glebov in the interview made with Glebov in relation to Course of the Year ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 16 2018

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is leg 9 in from the Men 21 course from Beograd Open 2018. The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a look at it and think about how you would attack this leg (if the image is too small, ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 15 2018

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a course from the women elite class of the Czech Champs Long distance. This is a leg in a typical continental terrain (we already had a leg from the men’s class here earlier). The question is the same as often in this type ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 14 2018

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Today we have a very special leg from the Norwegian Youth championships for 14 year old in Route to Christmas. A very tricky leg for the young runners – really something to grow on! What would you do with this kind of challenge in unknown terrain? Thanks to Arild Andersen ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 13 2018

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is another one from Italy- this time from the Coppa Italia Long distance race in Trentino in October. The chosen leg is the 11th in the Men Elite course. This is based on a tip from Mikkel Lyskjær – thanks a lot for the ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 12 2018

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a nice long leg from the Norwegian Championships Long distance in southern Norway. The chosen leg is the 9th leg which spread out the runners quite well. What would you choose? The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 11 2018

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Slovenia is known for its tricky karst terrain – but in today’s leg in Route to Christmas we take a look at a very different Slovenian terrain. This terrain contains of steep slopes which invite to some nice routechoice challenges. Today’s leg is the second leg in the SEEOC (South East ...

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