Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2024 is leg an interesting leg from the long distance competition Maximus O Meeting organized in Spain back in February this year. We look at the men’s super-elite course, and again the forest is fast. Comments from the map-makers from the race Bulletin: This ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2024 is a long leg from the Junior World Orienteering Championships Long distance in Czech Republic. This is what the bulletin said about the terrain: The terrain is mostly hilly with rocks and stones in places high up on the hills. Mostly coniferous forest ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2024 takes us to an interesting leg in French karst terrain at OOCup 2024. Not the longest leg, but still challenging to decide what to do. In the bulletin the terrain was described as hilly terrain, nice mixed forest with many relief details, some ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2024 takes us to the long distance race Närkekvartetten in Sweden – the 5th race in this years’ Swedish League. A quite interesting long leg where you have to consider straight versus around. The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you ...

The 18th edition of the traditional Route to Christmas here at World of O starts with a long, interesting leg from the Italian stage race Cansiglio O-Meeting. Enjoy the challenges – just like the competitors! Your job in Route to Christmas is to take a good look at the day’s leg, decide which ...

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 ...