Route to Christmas: Day 18 2020

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2020 is from Portugal. This time we travel to a junior national team training camp where the athletes ran a competition on an interesting course. Thanks a lot to Tomás Lima for the tip and providing some analysis. Here is some background information from Lima: ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 17 2020

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2020 is leg 6 in the M21 course from Norwegian Championships Ultralong. Thanks a lot to Tibor Vari for the tip! The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a look at it and think about how you would attack ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 16 2020

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2020 is leg 18 in the Leg course from Polish Championships Long at Nodate. Thanks a lot to Wojciech Dwojak for the tip and some background info and analysis of the leg. Dwojak was advisor for the event, while Bartlomiej Mazan was course setter. From the ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 15 2020

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2020 is from a Finnish night orienteering competition – the first race in the Kurko Cup organized last month. The chosen leg is the first leg out from the start – organized as a mass start. Thanks a lot to Arttu Syrjäläinen for the tip! Arttu ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 14 2020

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is from the final stage from the Lapland O Week – far up north in Finland. Thanks a lot to Antti Vainio for the tip! The chosen leg is the leg from control 17 to 18 quite late on the long course. The leg is as usually ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 13 2020

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is the first urban sprint leg in this years’ edition. The chosen leg is from the Budapest KO sprint champs. Thanks a lot to Máté Maródi for suggestion, analysis and illustration! This was the final of the Budapest KO sprint. The map is by Teodóra ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 12 2020

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Today’s edition of Route to Christmas travels to Spain and the middle distance race of Maximum O-Meeting which was organized west of Madrid this February.  The chosen leg is the 7th leg, which was common for the men’s and women’s elite course. The men’s class is chosen for analysis as ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 11 2020

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2020 is the first leg from the final of the legendary night orienteering cup “Harry Lagerts Nattcup” in Oslo – a race which has been featured several times earlier in Route to Christmas. Thanks a lot to Søren Jonsson for the tip, and for course setter ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 10 2020

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas takes us to some interesting Swiss Jura terrain. The chosen leg is from the International Youth Orienteering Meeting Long distance organized in the end of October. There was also an elite class in the competition, and routes are from a combination of the M20 ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 9 2020

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Today’s Route to Christmas takes another trip to Finland and the Finnish Championships long distance. This time we look at the 5th leg – also a tip by Anssi Vesanto. In preparation for this leg it could be a good idea to visit day 6 to look at how the routechoice ...

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