This year’s courses look similar to last year’s in that they are in an area quite close to the city, i.e. not wilderness. But I think the course setter has managed to set up many interesting challenges for the runners (as you can see in the GPS analysis article), especially for the men. In the women’s course the percentage of “transport” is a bit too large. But if they are better than last year? I’d say not very much of a difference, although there is less path/roads in the end of the course.

Comparing to e.g. the PostFinance middle distance in Switzerland last year though, this course feels a lot more interesting …