Todays leg in Route to Christmas is from Latvia – from the long distance championships. This is very marshy terrain – as you often meet in Latvia – and a combination of small hills and some paths/roads makes this an interesting area from some route choice leg. The event was ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a really long leg on a colorful Hungarian map. This is one of those maps where it is really tough to run on a hot day. No problem with heat this day – the race was run on February 27th. The chosen leg ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is from the Elitserien race in Bonäs in June this year. This is a race for which there was full GPS tracking for 50 runners, and thus there are interesting analysis possibilities. Thanks to Eva Jurenikova for the tip. This was a middle distance ...

In today’s Route to Christmas we are off to the British Championships long distance organized close to Sheffield in the middle of May this year. Thanks to Dave Schorah for the tip. Course setters on this British Championships long distance were Oli and Jenny Johnson – both elite runners in ...

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is from Czech Republic – one of the countries which is really active with RouteGadget with a lot of interesting terrain for long route choice legs. This leg is from a regional competition in hilly terrain – and we are faced with a classical ...

For today’s Route to Christmas we travel far away from Europe – to Blue Mountain and the US Timetrails long distance. – Blue Mountain is lovely terrain. The forest floor is largely clear, with very little rock or vegetation underfoot for the most part, course setter Neil Dobbs explains. – ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a long leg up in the northern UK on Holme Fell. The event was used as World Champs selection races, and thus there were a lot of top runners present. The terrain is quite marshy, with a lot of contours to be fought. ...

A long leg and many stones and boulders! Today’s leg in Route to Christmas brings us back to France again – but to very different terrain from what we have visited earlier in the 2011 edition of Route to Christmas. This leg is taken from a national league championship that ...

Today we are finally travelling out of Europe again – to some quite intricate terrain in the forests of Whitehorse in Canada! Todays leg is from the Western Canadian Championships Long distance 2011 organized on July 17th 2011. Thanks to Will Critchley for help with terrain description and analysis. The ...

In today’s edition of Route to Christmas we visit Hungary for another long leg in an ultralong event – although the leg is not as long as the Finnish one of yesterday. The leg is from the Men 21 Elite course in the Hungarian Ultralong Championships organized on April 4th. ...