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Route to Christmas: Day 16

Todays leg is an interesting leg from the WCOC long distance event in Canada at 8th of October 2007 (Thanks to Louise Osram for the tip!). Courses 10 (elite male) and 9 (elite women/35+ men/19- men) had the same leg. First take a look at the map without routes – ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 15

Todays leg is from the unofficial Norwegian Youth Champs 2006 (Hovedløpet) in Norway – north of Trondheim. Leg 14 in the oldest category – H16 – is chosen. This leg is not exceptionally difficult nor long – but it is interesting to note how it is attacked by the coming ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 14

Todays leg is leg 8 from the long distance at the Junior World Orienteering Champs in Australia this year. The route choice drawing + splits is prepared by Christian Bobach – thanks a lot to Christian! – Australian granit terrains kan make som realy good route choice legs – like ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 13

Todays leg is leg 11 in category H21E from the Latvian race “Kurzemes Pavasaris” in Garâ at April 7th 2007. Note that not all the best runners have drawn their route choice – route choices and times given here are relative to the ones who have drawn their route. Thank ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 12

Todays leg is leg 17 in HE from the Swiss Champs Long Distance 2006 in Crans-Montana at August 20th 2006 with OLG Wallis / CO Valais as organizers. First take a look at the map without routes – and think about how you would attack this leg (if the image ...

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Orienteering in Kenya

Orienteering without borders is the motto of the Thermenland Open orienteering event which was initiated three years ago as a cross-border cooperation project between three orienteering clubs in Slovenia, Hungary and Austria. An additional element to this project was the participation of athletes from Kenya at this year’s Thermenland Open ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 11

Todays leg is leg 2 in HE from the Swiss Champs Long Distance 2006 in Crans-Montana at August 20th 2006 with OLG Wallis / CO Valais as organizers. First take a look at the map without routes – and think about how you would attack this leg (if the image ...

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Gueorgiou’s story – Part II

– Thierry, you are one of the best map readers I have ever seen. But if you want to become the best, you must change your way of orienteering. You have to start building much simpler mental images of the terrain if you want to become faster. This was the ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 10

Todays leg is leg 5 from the Hungarian competition Borsod Kupa 2007 at 2007-06-02 for the category M21E. The tip is from Stig Alvestad – thank you very much to Stig! First take a look at the map without routes – and think about how you would attack this leg ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 9

Today’s leg is from an Australian National League Long Distance Event. Here is what todays Neil Barr writes about this: – Our club runs one of the two Route Gadget sites in Australia. I suspect this is the most utilised of the two. I have trawled through the routes for ...

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