Route to Christmas: 2023
Route to Christmas Early Edition: WOC Long 2023 Women Leg 4
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 may take a look at it and think about how you
Route to Christmas Early Edition: WOC Long 2023 last long leg
The last long leg down just before the finish – being the same in both the men’s and women’s course – is a very interesting route choice leg. 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 i
Route To Christmas: Day 1 2023
The 17th edition of the traditional Route to Christmas here at World of O starts with a long leg from the Finnish Long Distance Orienteering Championships. 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 finally draw your c
Route to Christmas: Day 2 2023
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is from one of the largest competitions of the year – Jukola! The chosen leg is a common leg towards the end of the long night leg, the 3rd leg. At this time in the course, you are tired, and you probably want to play it a bit safe while still making sure you don’t lose time. The leg is as u
Route To Christmas: Day 3 2023
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is the longest leg in the Swiss Championships long distance in challenging Jura terrain. Thanks a lot to Christoph Salzmann for the tip! This is typical Jura terrain where the runnability may be variable, and especially where the ground is stony running may be slowed significantly – also look ou
Route To Christmas: Day 4 2023
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is from one of the hightlights on the international orienteering scene in 2023 – the long distance World Cup race in sandstone terrain in Czech Republic. Here we take a look at the 4th leg in the women’s course – the first real challenge on the course. The leg is as usually first pro
Route To Christmas: Day 5 2023
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is leg 7 in the women’s class of the MOC Championships Long distance 2023. Thanks a lot to Riccardo Scalet for the tip! This is tricky Karst-type terrain – which may feel a lot more challenging in the terrain than what you see on the map from your favourite arm-chair. Here is Riccardo’
Route To Christmas: Day 6 2023
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is from a quite recent night orienteering race – the final of the Harry Lagerts Night Cup in the Oslo-area, Norway. This was the 24th edition of Harry Lagerts – and the race series have been featured in Route to Christmas several times already. Thanks a lot to Sören Jonsson for the tip! Sir
Route To Christmas: Day 7 2023
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is from another big highlight of the 2023 international orienteering season – the World Orienteering Championships Middle distance. The WOC 2023 Middle courses challenged the runners in many different ways, like a good Middle distance course should do. The courses started with extremely techn
Route To Christmas: Day 8 2023
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is a long leg from the men’s class in the Danish Championships Long distance 2023. Thanks for the tip to Johan Aagaard for his annual contribution to Route to Christmas! Some race information from Johan: In my opinion there are especially the long leg 7-8 that are interesting, because even thou
Route To Christmas: Day 9 2023
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is the longest leg from the Swiss selection race for the World Cup in Norway, the 4th National orienteering race of the year in Switzerland. This course was suggested (as an honorable mention) from Ivar Lundanes for “Course of the Year 2023” – and as Ivar writes, This was a brutal cou
Route To Christmas: Day 10 2023
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is the 7th leg in the Men’s class in the Swedish Championships Long distance. Thanks a lot to Björn Johansson for the tip! And as a reminder – I still need tips for interesting legs for Route to Christmas. You are especially encouraged to suggest legs from the women’s class as most
Route To Christmas: Day 11 2023
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is leg 15 in the Oceania Orienteering Champs Long at the very start of the year. I’ve searched for legs outside Europe, and was happy to find this one! Thanks a lot to the leg winner Aston Key to let me know his thougths about the terrain and the leg! Here is first a tip when selecting your routec
Route To Christmas: Day 12 2023
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is leg 5 in from the long distance event at Day 2 of Lipica Open 2023 in Slovenia – in a nice and quite technical karst terrain. I got hold of the one who ran the fastest time of the leg – Gustav Hindér – and he was kind enough to write this introduction to the terrain (thanks a lot,
Route To Christmas: Day 13 2023
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is leg 8 in the Men Elite course from Göteborgspremiären 2023. A medium long leg in quite technical 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 14 2023
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is leg 3 in the Men Elite course from CAOM2 023 Day 2 in Portugal – a Long distance World Ranking event. The terrain looks nice and hilly, with the opportunity for some interesting routechoice leg. The chosen leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a look at it and thin
Route To Christmas: Day 15 2023
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is leg 6 in a shortened Long Distance organized in Tenerife in early January. Thanks to Alvar Palmén for the tip and to Thierry Gueorgiou for help with the analysis. The course is from a training camp at Tenerife with the national teams of Norway and Finland present, along with a smaller group from
Route To Christmas: Day 16 2023
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is an intriguing leg from the men’s course in the Junior World Orienteering Championships Long distance in 2023. Lots of contours and many possible choices – what would you choose? The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a look at it and think about how you
Route To Christmas: Day 17 2023
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is an exotic one for many – we travel to Japan for a routechoice leg from the Japanese Long distance orienteering championships. This course was suggested for the “Course of the Year 2023″ – head over and add your nominations for “Course of the Year 2023″ within Monda
Route To Christmas: Day 18 2023
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is another leg from the Japanese Championships Long distance – you can take a look at yesterday’s leg here to learn more about this 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
Route To Christmas: Day 19 2023
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is a very interesting long leg from the Czech Championships Long distance – a course that came to my attention after being nominated for Course of the Year 2023. The course has several interesting legs where I struggled to find a solution I was really happy with – one of them is the leg to
Route To Christmas: Day 20 2023
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is a very long leg from the women’s course in the Swedish Championships Long distance. Thanks to Björn Johansson 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 cli
Route To Christmas: Day 21 2023
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is leg 6 in men’s course from the Norwegian Championships long distance. The leg is not very long, but there is still an interesting route choice puzzle for you here. Here is the terrain description from the invitation: The terrain has partly good runnability and is partly difficult to run through
Route To Christmas: Day 23 2023
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is leg 19 from the French Championships long distance. I got some help with the analysis from one of the runners – Matthieu Puech. He had the following tip about the terrain when considering where to run on this leg: Light green was pretty fast (good runnability) but already with quite reduced visi
Route To Christmas: Day 22 2023
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is another leg from the Junior World Championships 2023 – a course which is also in the Top 12 in the Course of the Year 2023 after a few days of voting. Thanks a lot to Iounut Zinca for the tip! Take a look at the leg from Day 16 in Route to Christmas 2023 to familiarize yourself with the ter
Route To Christmas: Day 24 2023
The final leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is a leg from the World Masters Championships in exciting karst-terrain in Slovakia. The chosen leg is the 6th leg from the M40 Long Final. This is what the bulletin said about the terrain: The Silická plateau is located between 500 and 630 m above sea level and is well known for its karst terrain and