Comments on: Route To O-Season 2020: Day 48

By: Jan Kocbach

Jan Kocbach — Sun, 03 May 2020 11:23:38 +0000

About reversing the leg: Yes, I agree, then you’d use one of the most used tools in a sprint-planners toolbox.

By: Knut Wiig Mathisen

Knut Wiig Mathisen — Sun, 03 May 2020 11:15:24 +0000

Actually I think that this is very balanced in an optimal way. I think that most (not all) route-choice legs should aim for a split like this, namely that about 70 % of the field of runners detect and select the best route-choice, and that this route-choice also proves to be the best from the leg-times. (Thx for the reply, but you did not comment on what you think would have happened if the leg was reversed, I bet that maximum 50 % would have gone via the road and field in that case!)

By: John Kewley

John Kewley — Sat, 02 May 2020 10:32:08 +0000

This is why in Mountain Orienteering (when there is a lot of time on previous legs to look ahead) to check how you would run the leg in reverse – if it is the same as you have chosen then you probably have a good leg. If it is different – then is there a good reason for that?

By: Jan Kocbach

Jan Kocbach — Fri, 01 May 2020 14:03:09 +0000

@Knut: Yes, that’s why I think the leg is not perfectly balanced, but not too easy to hit the mark there always… Based on the heatmap it looks like there is approx 70/30 here as well.