The final leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is a leg from the World Masters Championships in exciting karst-terrain in Slovakia. The chosen leg is the 6th leg from the M40 Long Final.  This is what the bulletin said about the terrain:  The Silická plateau is located between 500 and 630 ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is leg 19 from the French Championships long distance. I got some help with the analysis from one of the runners – Matthieu Puech. He had the following tip about the terrain when considering where to run on this leg: Light green was ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is another leg from the Junior World Championships 2023 – a course which is also in the Top 12 in the Course of the Year 2023 after a few days of voting. Thanks a lot to Iounut Zinca  for the tip! Take a look at the ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is leg 6 in men’s course from the Norwegian Championships long distance. The leg is not very long, but there is still an interesting route choice puzzle for you here. Here is the terrain description from the invitation: The terrain has partly good runnability ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is a very long leg from the women’s course in the Swedish Championships Long distance. Thanks to Björn Johansson for the tip! The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a look at it and think about how you ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is a very interesting long leg from the Czech Championships Long distance – a course that came to my attention after being nominated for Course of the Year 2023. The course has several interesting legs where I struggled to find a solution I was really ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is another leg from the Japanese Championships Long distance – you can take a look at yesterday’s leg here to learn more about this terrain. The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a look at it and ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is an exotic one for many – we travel to Japan for a routechoice leg from the Japanese Long distance orienteering championships. This course was suggested for the “Course of the Year 2023″ – head over and add your nominations for “Course of ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is an intriguing leg from the men’s course in the Junior World Orienteering Championships Long distance in 2023. Lots of contours and many possible choices – what would you choose?  The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is leg 6 in a shortened Long Distance organized in Tenerife in early January. Thanks to Alvar Palmén for the tip and to Thierry Gueorgiou for help with the analysis. The course is from a training camp at Tenerife with the national teams of Norway and Finland ...