Todays leg in Route to Christmas is probably the longest leg in this edition of Route to Christmas! The leg in question is leg number 5 from the H21E course in the Austrian championships long distance at September 22nd in very stony and technical terrain in Arnoldstein. – [The] competitions ...

Todays in Route to Christmas we are bringing back fond memories from WOC in France in 2011. Not the same courses, but the same challenging terrain! Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is leg 4 in the H21E course from a regional middle distance race – O’Tomne en Savoie 2012 ...

For those of you loving sprint – we have finally got two sprint legs for you. The legs are from a Czech National Team Sprint Training January 22nd 2012 prepared by Czech trainer Radek Novotny, and one of the legs has actually already been published here at World of O. ...

Today Route to Christmas travels to Switzerland to a long, tough race. The chosen leg is leg number 11 in the H21E course from Swiss Champs long distance 2012 at August 19th 2012. Thanks to Severin Howald for the tip. In addition to the leg to control number 11, we ...

Todays Route to Christmas travels to Germany – to the German Championships Ultralong at April 21st! As it is a rainy(?) Saturday today, I have prepared two long legs for you with the help of course setter Bjarne Friedrichs. – It was a great challenge to do the mapping and ...

Today is your lucky day! Not one, but two(!) very interesting legs from Croatia are on offer in Route to Christmas today. And the legs offer very different orienteering challenges: Although significant parts of the map are extreme karst, the other part is more typical continental terrain, and the course ...

In todays leg in Route to Christmas we are moving south from Scandinavia to Switzerland. The race in question is the first national race on April 9th – and as there was GPS tracking in this race there is a lot of data to analyze. With WOC being run in ...

The fifth day of Route to Christmas 2012 takes us to Sweden again – to a very interesting long leg in a middle distance course. Todays leg is leg number 12 in the H21E course from the Silva League WRE-race at April 15th. PS! I hope to soon get enough ...

The fourth day of Route to Christmas 2012 takes us to France to a very special training. This labyrinth was one of the suggestions for “Course of the Year 2012″ – but was not within the Top 10. The leg in question is leg number two. The rules are simple: ...

The third day of Route to Christmas 2012 takes us to Sweden and the Swedish Championships Ultralong. The race was organized on September 29th southwest of Mora. The leg in question is leg number 23 – in the last part of the race. The leg is a long one in ...