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Route to Christmas: Day 17 2025

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2025 is an epic 3.8 km long leg from the “long night” of the largest international orienteering relay, Jukola. And what a leg – here you can get mentally exhausted just by trying to figure out where to run!  Thanks a lot to Agnar Reolen for ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 16 2025

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2025 is the 14th leg from the European Youth Orienteering Championships (EYOC) in Czechia. A few days ago we featured a leg from the EYOC Long distance, so at EYOC the route setters really did a good job in great terrains. Thanks a lot ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 15 2025

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2025 is a leg from the French Championships Long distance in hilly terrain which gives some nice opportunities for route choices. The tip from Eva Jurenikova from this competition was actually for another leg (leg 11, M21), but after reviewing the course I decided ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 14 2025

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2025 is another leg from hilly Czech terrain – this time from the European Youth Orienteering Championships Long distance. This is the type of leg where you HAVE to decide where to run before leaving the control … Thanks a lot to Stanislav for suggesting ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 13 2025

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2025 is something very different from what we have seen so far – today we travel to Switzerland for a Sprint leg. Thanks a lot to Silvan Ullmann, course setter at the Knock-Out sprint at the World Cup final, for a very long and detailed analysis ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 12 2024

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is from a course that was described as “the best long distance race that I have run” when the course was nominated for Course of the Year a few days ago. We are now through half of this year’s Route to Christmas legs – ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 11 2025

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2025 is one of the courses that has been among the most popular in the nomination for Course of the Year 2025: The World Orienteering Championships Long distance. Note also that today is your last chance to add nominations for Course of the Year 2025, ...

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