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Todays leg is from Switzerland – and the competition is the 5. National Chuderhüsi at september 22nd 2007. The chosen leg is leg 12 from the men elite course. A long leg, where the main challenge is to avoid climbing while still not running to far. First take a look ...

Todays leg is a really long and interesting leg from this years Norwegian Champs long distance at September 13th in the Hamar region north of the Norwegian capital Oslo. For runners not used to Nordic terrain, one these legs will definitely be a real challenge! First take a look at ...

Todays leg is from the 2. Austria Cup 2007 at April 22nd 2007. The chosen leg is leg number 12 in H35, which is also very similar to leg number 13 in H20E/H21L. It is a long leg with quite a few route choice alternatives. The difference between the different ...

Ready for a winter training camp in Portugal, Spain, France or Italy? Or a WOC training camp in Czech Republic? EuOC-training camp in Latvia? In the Training camps/Orienteering Travel section of WoO Calendar there are now quite a few offers available – the first starting already from January 1st. The ...

Todays leg is from a national Finnish event close to Helsinki at May 25th 2005. The chosen leg is leg number 16 in H21A (Thanks again to Jarkko Ryyppö for the tip). It is a rather long leg, with several different options. First take a look at the map without ...

Todays leg is from the “Championnat de France classique” at August 20th 2005 in the category HSeE. A relatively short leg, but with several distinct route choice alternatives. First take a look at the map without routes – and think about how you would attack this leg (if the map ...

Todays leg is from the first leg in M18 at this years Junior European Cup Classic distance at October 13th in Aveyron, France. The terrain is very special – open, stony and technical. First take a look at the map without routes – and think about how you would attack ...

The monsterleg to the second control in this years Finnish night champs (Karkkila) is already famous as it marked the start of one of the many interesting fights between the two best male orienteers in 2008 – Thierry Gueorgiou and Matthias Merz (thanks to “Mr. Routegadget”, Jarkko Ryyppö, for the ...

Did you find the article on Thierry Gueorgiou’s “Full speed – no mistake” technique (Gueorgiou’s story part II) interesting? In that case, this follow-up article about “Analyzing your map reading in orienteering” by Martin Lerjen should interest you a lot. This article compares different map reading technique – one of ...

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 – ...