Orienteering News

Today’s entry in “January Classics” is a nice long distance race in Sweden in – the European Championships long distance final 2012 in Skattungbyn, Sweden. A tough long distance with many long legs with route choice options. For this race there is a full GPS- and split time analysis available ...

One of the great classic races is the WOC classic in the USA in 1993 – won by Danish Allan Mogensen. The map is called ‘Surebridge mountain’ – and it is one of the maps featured in the sleeping project “101 Orienteering Maps you should run on before you die”. ...

Start the preparations for Jukola 2014: Here are two different maps of the Jukola 2014 terrain – both made based on LIDAR (laser data). As a bonus a “RunningWild” with a 11 km long course and a Webroute for a hypothetical first leg is also included. Complete map comparison – ...

– 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! ...