Route to Christmas: 2021
Route To Christmas: Day 1 2021
Ready for some pre-Christmas fun? Today we start the traditional Route to Christmas here at World of O with an interesting route choice leg from the World Cup Final Middle distance in Italy this autumn. Today’s leg is set in very intricate karst terrain – the ground being quite stony and the orienteering really tricky. The leg is as
Route to Christmas: Day 2 2021
In today’s edition of Route to Christmas we travel to Australia to a leg featured at the second day of Australia 3 Days 2021 last easter. The competitors were challenged physically, technically, and mentally by some of the best granite terrain and – according to the organizers – one of Australia’s best granite maps. The leg
Route to Christmas: Day 3 2021
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2021 is from the Swedish League final on Gotland this october – a tough long distance race. The leg is long – more than 2.5 km long – and this is quite far into the race (70-75 minutes after the start). Thanks a lot to Brent Key – course setter and map maker for the event – for
Route to Christmas: Day 4 2021
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2021 is the first leg from the Swiss Championships Long distance (LOM) organized in interesting pre-alpine terrain. The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a look at it and think about how you would attack this leg (if the image is too small, you may click on it to get it lar
Route to Christmas: Day 5 2021
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2021 is a monsterleg from this year’s Jukola relay. More than 5 km – in marshes – at night (although it wasn’t that dark in northern Finland this summer). Just thinking through where to run – and why – makes you exhausted. Do you take the challenge – thinking through
Route to Christmas: Day 6 2021
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2021 is another long night orienteering leg – although not as long as yesterday. This time we travel to Sweden and the Swedish championships night orienteering. The chosen leg is the 18th leg in the men’s elite course – featuring the usual tactical choices on a night orienteering leg. The l
Route to Christmas: Day 7 2021
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2021 is a women’s leg from the Finnish Long distance championships. Another real routechoice leg – and this time with many runners losing time on a slower routechoice. Can you spot the fastest route? Thanks a lot to Agnar Reolen for the tip! The leg is as usually first provided without routes &#
Route to Christmas: Day 8 2021
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2021 is from one of the most anticipated races in the international orienteering season 2021 – the World Orienteering Championships Long distance in sandstone terrain in Czech Republic. The chosen leg is the 2nd leg in the women’s course – the longest and potentially most decisive leg. Th
Route to Christmas: Day 9 2021
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2021 is a leg from the last part of an ultralong race – Blodslitet organized in eastern Norway this autumn. The chosen leg is the 5th leg on the last, common leg – many tired legs and brains at this point of the race. The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a look
Route to Christmas: Day 10 2021
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is from one of the courses nominated for Course of the Year 2021, an interesting long distance race in Idala, Göteborg this May. The chosen leg is the leg to the 19th control in the men’s course. Here is the intro of Viktor Wassén who nominated the course: A proper long distance in shifting terrain a
Route to Christmas: Day 11 2021
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2021 is another quite long leg in Nordic terrain – this time from the Norwegian Championships long distance which was organized close to Porsgrunn in eastern Norway. The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a look at it and think about how you would attack this leg (i
Route to Christmas: Day 12 2021
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2021 is not from a competition like all the other entries so far this year, but from a training camp. The chosen training is a training the Swedish team did in Switzerland this autumn on the map Fluewald-Ahorn, with Ursli as course setter. The chosen leg is the long leg to control 6 which features several rou
Route to Christmas: Day 13 2021
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2021 is a leg from one of the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) test races in Czech Republic ahead of this years WOC. In some regards the route choices in the test races were even more interesting than the route choices in the WOC itself – enjoy! The leg is as usually first provided without route
Route to Christmas: Day 14 2021
Some love it – and some old-school orienteers hate it: Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2021 is the first sprint leg in this edition of Route to Christmas. The chosen leg is from the Norwegian EOC test-races in Bergen, Norway. First a request: Please send suggestions for interesting legs for the remaining days of Route to Christmas. I&
Route to Christmas: Day 15 2021
Lean back and get some coffee for one of the absolute highlights of this edition of Route to Christmas! Today’s leg is a long leg from the Swedish Junior Championships Ultralong for juniors – with no less than 310 combinations of partial routechoices! Thanks a lot for Simon Hector for providing the tip, and for course setters Per and
Route to Christmas: Day 16 2021
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2021 is from Euromeeting – a long leg in alpine terrain at Bettmeralp in Switzerland. Thanks a lot to Christoph Salzmann for the tip! The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a look at it and think about how you would attack this leg (if the image is too small, you may cl
Route to Christmas: Day 17 2021
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2021 is a leg from the Finnish Champs Long distance – a leg with a lot on spreading of the runners. Can you spot the route which would be fastest for you here? Thanks a lot to Miika Kirmula for the tip! We already had a leg from this race in this year’s edition of Route to Christmas, but then in
Route to Christmas: Day 18 2021
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2021 is from a World Ranking Event Long distance taking place at the ski resort La Plagne, in an Alpine French terrain. The race was also used as a selection race for World Cup in Italy for the French team, and most of the best runners running for a selection were given a GPS. Thanks a lot to Benjamin Leduc
Route to Christmas: Day 19 2021
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2021 is another Sprint leg. This Sprint leg is from Team Latvia’s training towards the European Orienteering Championships. The city is Talsi and course setter was Olli-Markus Taivainen. Thanks a lot to Janis Tamuzs for the tip and for preparing analysis. The leg in question is from a sprint-relay in
Route to Christmas: Day 20 2021
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2021 is more of an orienteering puzzle than a normal orienteering leg – so you might need to set aside some time to figure this one out. Thanks a lot to Robert Graham for the tip! The leg is from a complex multi-lever sprint training session in Ottawa, Canada organized by Jeff Teutsch – thanks al
Route to Christmas: Day 21 2021
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2021 is another one from Czech Republic, but in very different terrain from the sandstone terrain we have visited earlier. After many very tricky legs, this is one which is a bit easier – here you just have to decide! The chosen competition is a Czech Cup Middle distance – and we have chosen the f
Route to Christmas: Day 22 2021
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2021 is another long and interesting leg! Now we are back to Norwegian forests – the last time was on December 11th. Thanks a lot to Arild Andersen for the tip! The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a look at it and think about how you would attack this leg (if the im
Route to Christmas: Day 23 2021
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2021 is the last sprint leg in this year’s edition of Route to Christmas. This time we travel to Estonia to the Estonian Championships sprint. Thanks a lot to Uku-Laur Tali for the tip! Uku-Laur Tali was the head organizer while the course setter was Eduard Pukkonen. The leg is as usually first provi
Route to Christmas: Day 24 2021
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2021 is leg 4 from the Norwegian Championships night – a leg with some interesting route choice options! Thanks a lot to Mathias Benjaminsen for the tip. The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a look at it and think about how you would attack this leg (if the image is