Comments on: Route to Christmas: Day 26 2013

By: o-zeugs

o-zeugs — Sat, 28 Dec 2013 14:36:03 +0000

The most-right choice could even pass the last two controls. That way the run in started at the 19th control.

By: TBA

TBA — Fri, 27 Dec 2013 22:18:59 +0000

Thanks a lot for all the good work, it’s been a great pleasure to follow the route to christmas:)

By: Terje Mathisen

Terje Mathisen — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 09:44:59 +0000

None of the GPS tracks take the full flat/right-hand option which starts going E then ESE: Yes, this is even longer than those shown, but it gets rid of a lot of climb which should make it possible to run faster on the paths all the way.

Particularly at the end of a long distance race I would expect many runners to be too tired to maintain top speed on the direct options, but the podium finishers would manage. I.e. for most orienteers the flat option might well be the fastest.

On the RouteGadget link the second-place runner do this and runs quite fast even if he loses 2.5 minutes to the winner. However, on this map it really looks like it would be legal to run to the right of the out-of-bounds area, going through the finish! This seems to save around 75 m of climb as well as being a little bit shorter?

By: Stanislav Mokrý

Stanislav Mokrý — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 07:24:16 +0000

There are few more routes in RouteGadget (category H21A), including the winner of this leg and also overall winner Jan Šedivý.
http://ob.tmapserver.cz/scripts/reitti.cgi?act=map&id=757&kieli=cz