Comments on: Route to Christmas: Day 23 2017 https://news.worldofo.com/2017/12/23/route-to-christmas-day-23-2017/ Fri, 09 Jan 2026 09:51:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.39 By: Terje Wiig Mathisen https://news.worldofo.com/2017/12/23/route-to-christmas-day-23-2017/#comment-127462 Sat, 23 Dec 2017 19:15:14 +0000 http://news.worldofo.com/?p=14212#comment-127462 Agnar, have you taken a look at the full course tracking?

https://www.livelox.com/Events/Show/28715

This course had a lot of interesting route choices, and the actual time difference was far less than 4 minutes for a perfectly executed straight route, Anders made several mistakes. The key was of course that the road option meant about 15 minutes of mental relaxation and/or time to plan the rest of the course.

]]> By: Agnar Renolen https://news.worldofo.com/2017/12/23/route-to-christmas-day-23-2017/#comment-127461 Sat, 23 Dec 2017 16:52:16 +0000 http://news.worldofo.com/?p=14212#comment-127461 In my opinion, this is not a good orienteering leg. It is a wholesome 4 minutes faster to run the road, and it is 3,5 km of non-orienteering. Courses at this level should benefit the best orienteerers, not the best runners.

]]> By: Terje Wiig Mathisen https://news.worldofo.com/2017/12/23/route-to-christmas-day-23-2017/#comment-127460 Sat, 23 Dec 2017 15:35:06 +0000 http://news.worldofo.com/?p=14212#comment-127460 Einar Jensen from Nydalens SK was the course planner, we discussed the leg a week or two before the race:

Einar had originally planned control #8 much closer to the road so I complained that the road route was too obvious and suggested he move it 60-80 m further uphill. In the end Einar decided to move it even higher up, to where I would have guessed the routes were close to equal. This was sufficient to trap several runners including famous “Långa Natten” runner Anders Nordberg who was leading and would probably have won the race if he had taken the road route.

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