Route to Christmas: 2022
Route to Christmas: Day 1 2022
The 16th edition of the traditional Route to Christmas here at World of O starts with a long leg from this year’s Junior World Championships (JWOC) in Portugal. Enjoy the challenges – just like the competitors! Your job in Route to Christmas is to take a good look at the day’s leg, decide which route you would have chosen, and
Route to Christmas: Day 2 2022
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2022 is a very long leg from “Langløpet 2022″, a long distance race organized by Oppsal close to Oslo in Norway less than a month ago, on November 5th. Thanks a lot to Arild Andersen for the tip! After several days of rain, the terrain wa really tough, with rain and fog on the competition day. Th
Route to Christmas: Day 3 2022
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2022 is from Italy! The chosen leg is the long 19th leg from the men’s class in the Italy Cup long distance race on June 5th this year – in a interesting hilly terrain. Thanks a lot to Samuele Tait for the tip! The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a look at it
Route to Christmas: Day 4 2022
New day – new country: In today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2022 we travel to Austria for the second Austria cup of 2022 back in April. The chosen leg is a long leg which was the same for Men Elite and Women Elite. Thanks a lot to course setter Anja Arbter for the tip! The race was organized in the Vienna area, and there was some snow o
Route to Christmas: Day 5 2022
In today’s edition of Route to Christmas 2022 we travel to interesting, alpine terrain in Switzerland. The chosen leg is the 16th leg on the men’s course at the World Cup final long distance in the Davos-Klosters region, at high altitude between 1500 and 2000 masl. Thanks to Arild Andersen for the tip! The men’s long distance was su
Route to Christmas: Day 6 2022
New day – new country in the 2022 edition of Route to Christmas. Today we travel to Denmark and the World Orienteering Championships Sprint. The chosen leg is the second leg in both the men’s and women’s course – a leg that proved to be very decisive. The tip comes from Johan Aagard (thanks a lot!), who writes: In my opinion
Route to Christmas: Day 7 2022
– The best long distance I’ve ever run in Czech Republic. For this I do orienteering, Czech national team runner Milos Nykodym wrote in his map archive after running the course which is featured in today’s edition of Route to Christmas 2022. Thanks a lot to Ales Henja for the tip! The leg is as usually first provided without routes &
Route to Christmas: Day 8 2022
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2022 is another leg from Czech Republic – this time we travel to exciting sandstone terrain at the Czech Championships Long. This course was nominated for Course of the Year 2022 by Matej Burda – and it is definitely an interesting course. After taking a look at it, I found that the leg to contr
Route to Christmas: Day 9 2022
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2022 is from a night orienteering race in Norway – in foggy weather where night orienteering really gets interesting. The tip is from Terje Wiig Mathisen – and the chosen leg is the first leg from the second longest course. Terje writes: – I really liked the first leg of the Harry Lagert
Route to Christmas: Day 10 2022
– The leg to the 2nd control is one of the best route choice legs I’ve seen this year, and personally I think it’s probably the route choice I was struggling with the most to decide in the last few years. These are the words of elite runner Ivar Lundanes of Ivarnational Orienteering Podcast after the Norwegian Championships Ultralong, w
Route to Christmas: Day 11 2022
From ultralong distance in marshes to running in tunnels of a fortress: Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2022 is the complete opposite of yesterday’s leg from the roots of orienteering at the Norwegian Champs Ultralong distance. At the 11th day of Route to Christmas we visit a very special sprint race in Poland – the 4th stage of
Route to Christmas: Day 12 2022
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2022 is again from one of the courses nominated for Course of the Year 2022 – a very interesting leg from the men’s class of the Junior World Orienteering Championships Sprint in Portugal this summer. Thanks a lot to Rafael Miguel for the tip! The leg is as usually first provided without routes
Route to Christmas: Day 13 2022
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2022 is a real long distance forest leg again – this time from the men’s class in the Swedish Champs Long distance. Thanks a lot to Agnar Reolen and Georgi for the tip to consider this course! There were several interesting legs here, but I found leg 19 the most interesting and chose that for Rou
Route to Christmas: Day 14 2022
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2022 is another sprint leg – this time from MOC Camp Sprint Final in Rotondella organized by PWT Italia. The chosen leg is the longest leg in the competition – leg 15 – and the tip comes from Riccardo Scalet (thanks a lot!). Riccardo writes the following about the race: – I just wante
Route to Christmas: Day 15 2022
In today’s edition of Route to Christmas 2022 we travel to Spain for a long leg at the 34th Costa Calida long distance race, organized in march. Thanks a lot to Luis Nogueira for the tip! The leg (control 14 to 15) 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 16 2022
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 presented was a rather short leg to the second control.
Route to Christmas: Day 17 2022
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 the bush on it (native nz bush) is quite slow. This long leg (10 – 11) came a
Route to Christmas: Day 18 2022
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 for the tip! As I was participating in this race, I can gi
Route to Christmas: Day 19 2022
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 a mass start, and there was some snow in the terrain, which mad
Route to Christmas: Day 20 2022
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 provided without routes – you may take a look at it and t
Route to Christmas: Day 21 2022
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 the tip – the third tip of Arild to get into the calen
Route to Christmas: Day 22 2022
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 men’s course. I first planned to use the women
Route to Christmas: Day 23 2022
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 tricky terrain. The leg Miguel has pointed out as most interesting
Route to Christmas: Day 24 2022
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 not all dared to do it), we will here consider the leg the