Route To O-Season 2020: Day 13

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Today’s leg in Route to O-Season 2020 is from Switzerland in October 2017 – from the 9th National race at Mount Rigi. The chosen leg is the 11th leg in the M21E course. Thanks a lot to Sven Aschwanden for the leg and a long analysis text!  Sven writes the following about ...

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Route To O-Season 2020: Day 12

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Today’s leg in Route to O-Season 2020 is from Poland – from the Polish Long distance championships 2019. Thanks a lot to Fryderyk Pryjma 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 this ...

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Route To O-Season 2020: Day 11

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Today’s leg in Route to O-Season 2020 is from the Norwegian Championships Ultralong 2019. The chosen leg is not one of the longest legs, as those were mostly run in quite open terrain with mostly micro-routechoices to be made quite close to the line. Instead we take a look at ...

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Route To O-Season 2020: Day 10

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Today’s leg in Route to O-Season 2020 is a leg in very detailed “fight”-terrain in Norway – from the Norwegian O-festival long distance race. We already visited this race in “Route to Christmas 2019 Day 10″, but then we studied a longer leg. Now we have a quite short leg ...

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Route To O-Season 2020: Day 9

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– Australian granite terrains can make some really good route choice legs – like the 8th leg on the long distance at JWOC 2007. That’s how Christian Bobach put it back in 2007 – and the statement still stands. Today’s leg in Route to O-Season 2020 is another throwback to the ...

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Route To O-Season 2020: Day 8

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In today’s leg in Route to O-Season 2020 we go back to the year Route to Christmas started and present one of the highlights from the 2007 edition of Route to Christmas: A leg from the Swiss Champs Long 2006 in Crans Montana. Back in 2007 the “Route to Christmas” ...

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Route To O-Season 2020: Day 7

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Today’s leg in Route to O-Season 2020 is from a very recent race – the Melbourne Sprint Weekend 2020 Race 1  – a World Ranking Event organized earlier this month in Australia. The chosen leg is leg 19 in the M21E course. Thanks a lot to Patrick Jaffe for the tip! ...

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Route to O-Season 2020: Day 6

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Today’s leg in Route to O-Season 2020 is the first sprint leg in this series, the first leg from a women course, and the first leg from Hungary. The chosen leg is the 8th leg in the W21E course from Mecsek Open 2019. Thanks a lot to János Kelemen for the tip and ...

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Route To O-Season 2020: Day 5

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Today’s leg in Route to O-Season 2020 is another one from Sweden: Leg 6 in the M21E course from the second stage in the “MILA Stockholm by Night” series. Thanks a lot for the tip to Simon Hector, course setter. We will let Hector make the introduction to the leg: ...

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Route To O-Season 2020: Day 4

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Today’s leg in Route to O-Season 20202 is from a long distance competition in Sweden in April 2019 – Örjetrampen. The chosen leg is the 7th leg in the M21E course. Thanks a lot to the course setter, Andreas Johansson, for the tip! The leg is as usually first provided without ...

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