Orienteering News

– One of the best and most varied Long distance courses I have run. Nice terrain and interesting orienteering all the way, is Mats Troeng’s comment about the EOC Long Distance Final in 2008. Today’s edition of January Classics takes us to Latvia! From the official EOC 2008 webpage: The ...

Another classic WOC Long distance race today – the WOC long distance in Scotland in 1999. The map with course is found at the O-zeugs webpage. A PDF-booklet with the route choices of the top finishers and some history about the race can be found here (found in this thread ...

New year – new series! January is usually a “slow month” within orienteering, so why not beef it up a bit? Each day a new classic course (what today is called long distance) is featured – starting with the WOC long distance course from 1991 in Marianske Lazne, Czechoslovakia today. ...

Woops! We even got to 26 this year! Today’s leg is not based on a tip – but based on browsing the still unfinished events.worldofo.com (which might some day turn into something great – for now it is just “under construction” and only for hardcore fans). Today’s leg in Route ...

Woops! There is usually no day 25 in the Christmas calendar – but I could not throw away this tip from Marcel Schiess about Bern By Night – so here you are with an extra bonus! Todays bonus leg in Route to Christmas is leg 1 in the Long course ...

This leg in Route to Christmas is the first leg in the M21E course from the Baltic Championships at May 18th 2013. Thanks a lot to Lauri Sild for the suggestion! Today we return to Latvia – we got many good suggestions from Latvia this year! The race was organized ...

For today’s leg in Route to Christmas we travel to “Julenisse-land” – to the west of Finland. The chosen leg is leg 8-9 in the M21E course from the “Finnish champions for Swedish speaking people” (FSOM Long) at August 10th 2013. Thanks a lot to Anders Bäckström for the tip! ...

The legs from Czech sandstone terrain are always highlights in Route to Christmas! Todays leg in Route to Christmas is leg 5 in the M21 course from Czech National Cup number 6 at September 14th 2013 – a very nice leg!. You are faced with the usual question in this ...

Todays we have got a monster-leg in Route to Christmas! We return to Latvia – this one is leg 16 in the M21E course from Kurzemes Pavasaris which was organized at April 7th 2013. Thanks a lot to Janis Tamuzs for the tip! Here is what Janis writes about the ...

Another day – another country! Today we travel to Australia to the Victoria Championships long distance. The chosen leg in Route to Christmas is leg 10 in the M21 course from Victoria Championships long at September 1st 2013. This looks like very interesting terrain where the route choices are based ...