Route to Christmas: 2007
Route to Christmas: Day 5 2007
One leg with potentially interesting route choice alternatives each day until Christmas is the topic of this years Advent Calendar here at World of O. Did you miss Day 1-4? No problem - so did I - so just enjoy the last 19 days instead. Today’s leg is the 9th leg in this years Norwegian Champs [...]
Route to Christmas: Day 6 2007
Todays leg is the second leg from last years Forssa Games in Turku, Finland - at June 15th 2006. You find the final overall results here. Note that there is no route choice available for the winner Tero Föhr - and other strong runners like Jani Lakanen and Daniel Hubmann - but still interesting in [...]
Route to Christmas: Day 7 2007
Today: Estonia. A leg from Ilves 3-days competition, 2007-05-06, in the H20A/H21A/H35A categories. First the leg without any route choices. Then with route choices. Source: Routegadget from Ilves 3
Route to Christmas: Day 8 2007
Today a leg from a local night competition in Bergen, Norway. The leg in itself is maybe not very interesting - but interesting here is that widely different route choices are nearly equal in time. First the leg without routes: With routes: Source: Routegadget at Gular.org
Route to Christmas: Day 9 2007
Today’s leg is from an Australian National League Long Distance Event. Here is what todays Neil Barr writes about this: - Our club runs one of the two Route Gadget sites in Australia. I suspect this is the most utilised of the two. I have trawled through the routes for this year and picked out three [...]
Route to Christmas: Day 10 2007
Todays leg is leg 5 from the Hungarian competition Borsod Kupa 2007 at 2007-06-02 for the category M21E. The tip is from Stig Alvestad - thank you very much to Stig! First take a look at the map without routes - and think about how you would attack [...]
Route to Christmas: Day 11 2007
Todays leg is leg 2 in HE from the Swiss Champs Long Distance 2006 in Crans-Montana at August 20th 2006 with OLG Wallis / CO Valais as organizers. First take a look at the map without routes - and think about how you would attack this leg (if [...]
Route to Christmas: Day 12 2007
Todays leg is leg 17 in HE from the Swiss Champs Long Distance 2006 in Crans-Montana at August 20th 2006 with OLG Wallis / CO Valais as organizers. First take a look at the map without routes - and think about how you would attack this leg (if [...]
Route to Christmas: Day 13 2007
Todays leg is leg 11 in category H21E from the Latvian race “Kurzemes Pavasaris” in Garâ at April 7th 2007. Note that not all the best runners have drawn their route choice - route choices and times given here are relative to the ones who have drawn their route. Thank you to Martins Lismanis for [...]
Route to Christmas: Day 14 2007
Todays leg is leg 8 from the long distance at the Junior World Orienteering Champs in Australia this year. The route choice drawing + splits is prepared by Christian Bobach - thanks a lot to Christian! - Australian granit terrains kan make som realy good route choice legs - like the 8th leg on this [...]
Route to Christmas: Day 15 2007
Todays leg is from the unofficial Norwegian Youth Champs 2006 (Hovedløpet) in Norway - north of Trondheim. Leg 14 in the oldest category - H16 - is chosen. This leg is not exceptionally difficult nor long - but it is interesting to note how it is attacked by the coming Norwegian Orienteering Elite. [...]
Route to Christmas: Day 16 2007
Todays leg is an interesting leg from the WCOC long distance event in Canada at 8th of October 2007 (Thanks to Louise Osram for the tip!). Courses 10 (elite male) and 9 (elite women/35+ men/19- men) had the same leg. First take a look at the map [...]
Route to Christmas: Day 17 2007
The monsterleg to the second control in this years Finnish night champs (Karkkila) is already famous as it marked the start of one of the many interesting fights between the two best male orienteers in 2008 - Thierry Gueorgiou and Matthias Merz (thanks to “Mr. Routegadget”, Jarkko Ryyppö, for the tip). Which route choice would [...]
Route to Christmas: Day 18 2007
Todays leg is from the first leg in M18 at this years Junior European Cup Classic distance at October 13th in Aveyron, France. The terrain is very special - open, stony and technical. First take a look at the map without routes - and think about how you [...]
Route to Christmas: Day 19 2007
Todays leg is from the “Championnat de France classique” at August 20th 2005 in the category HSeE. A relatively short leg, but with several distinct route choice alternatives. First take a look at the map without routes - and think about how you would attack this leg [...]
Route to Christmas: Day 20 2007
Todays leg is from a national Finnish event close to Helsinki at May 25th 2005. The chosen leg is leg number 16 in H21A (Thanks again to Jarrkko Ryyppö for the tip). It is a rather long leg, with several different options. First take a look at the [...]
Route to Christmas: Day 21 2007
Todays leg is from the 2. Austria Cup 2007 at April 22nd 2007. The chosen leg is leg number 12 in H35, which is also very similar to leg number 13 in H20E/H21L. It is a long leg with quite a few route choice alternatives. The difference between the different alternatives is up to you [...]
Route to Christmas: Day 22 2007
Todays leg is a really long and interesting leg from this years Norwegian Champs long distance at September 13th in the Hamar region north of the Norwegian capital Oslo. For runners not used to Nordic terrain, one these legs will definitely be a real challenge! First take a [...]
Route to Christmas: Day 23 2007
Todays leg is from Switzerland - and the competition is the 5. National Chuderhüsi at september 22nd 2007. The chosen leg is leg 12 from the men elite course. A long leg, where the main challenge is to avoid climbing while still not running to far. First take [...]
Route to Christmas: Day 24 2007
To celebrate the last day in this years “Route to Christmas”, I have chosen a really long leg from the Norwegian Champs in night orienteering with several different distinct route choice options. Organizers were NTNUI orienteering, and the venue was Trondheim north in Norway. The leg chosen is leg 4 from category H21. [...]
Route to Christmas: Small bonus 2007
Just a small bonus leg from this years Norwegian Champs long distance at September 13th covered at December 22nd. The main thing here is not the route choices in themselves, but rather what happens when you are really tired (after the long leg covered on December 22nd and 17 more demanding legs) and have just [...]
Route to Christmas: Bonus 2 2007
Another small bonus leg - this time from the “Lang-SM” in Toppwald at september 23rd 2007 - the leg is leg 12 for the category HE. First take a look at the map without routes - and think about how you would attack this leg (if the [...]