Christmas is coming early this year: With the World Orienteering Championships Long courses being publiched some hours before the best runners start, this is your perfect chance to try out your skills on the long leg in the womens course. The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you ...

The final leg in this 16th edition of Route to Christmas 2022 is a quite special long leg from the European Championships Long distance in Estonia. While the runners where allowed to cross the river wherever they wanted (at least some of the runners were aware of this during the race, but ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2022 is leg 11 from the long distance race of the Aguiar da Beira Orienteering Meeting (ABOM) 2022 in Portugal. Thanks a lot to Rafael Miguel for the tip! According to Rafael, the ABOM 2022 long distance race was a tough long distance in very ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2022 is from the European Championships Middle distance in Estonia this summer. This was a very interesting race, with many mistakes being done in the dense, tricky forest. Thanks again to Arild Andersen for the tip! The chosen leg is the 6th leg in the ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2022 is a very interesting relay leg from alpine terrain in Switzerland. The leg we take a look at this time is the long leg to the 8th control in the women’s relay at the World Cup final in Davos-Klosters. Thanks again to Arild Andersen for ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2022 is another leg from the Czech Championships Long distance – we again travel to exciting sandstone terrain. While we looked at a quite short leg last time, we now turn our eyes to the long leg to the 11th control. The leg is as usually first ...

In today’s edition of Route to Christmas 2022 we travel to Sweden to a night orienteering race organized just last week. The leg is from a night orienteering cup organized in the Göteborg area. Thanks a lot to Søren Ødum, one of the organizers, for the tip! Note that this was ...

In today’s edition of Route to Christmas 2022 we return to Norway for a long and interesting leg. This time we take a look at the second leg in the H19-20 category in the largest orienteering event in Norway – O-festivalen – organized this June. Thanks a lot to Ales Henja ...

In today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2022 we travel all the way to New Zealand to a long leg in an ultralong distance race on the Hogsback map. Thanks a lot to Felix Hunt for the tip! Felix writes the following about the leg: This map is called Hogsback and ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2022 is a 4600 meter long monsterleg! For the second time in this series we visit the Norwegian Championships Ultralong, always one of the highlights in Route to Christmas. There were some really long legs in this year’s edition, but the first leg we ...