Comments on: EOC 2021 Individual Sprint: Maps, Results & Analysis

By: Knut Wiig Mathisen

Knut Wiig Mathisen — Sat, 22 May 2021 12:09:09 +0000

Thank you for an interesting discussion. I did a similar analysis as Leif earlier. When taking length and climb into effect right should be 1 s faster. When correcting for more turns etc left is indeed the best option, and runners taking right should rightfully lose time. But not more than 5-6 s. Or may be 8-10 s. The fact that runners tend to lose ca 10 s more than this must be due to a) slippery surface passing the bus station b) the gravel, and c) hesitation like Matija is explaining. My summary is still that at least 5 s probably 10 s of the time difference for the right option is not detectable from the map. This constitutes a large problem. In one way you could argue that this corresponds to a route choice being 15-30 s longer than it looks on a forest middle distance. So I, regretfully, still must conclude that this otherwise excellent sprint competition suffer from a too large luck-element. I am really happy that YM was beaten by a significant margin, and will cheer a bit extra for SA during WOC.

By: Jan Kocbach

Jan Kocbach — Thu, 20 May 2021 18:05:50 +0000

http://obasen.orientering.se/winsplits/online/en/default.asp?page=classes&databaseId=74542

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 20 May 2021 18:01:16 +0000

Are splits available somewhere?

By: rob plowright

rob plowright — Wed, 19 May 2021 04:02:07 +0000

I guess it doesn’t really matter but for the pale purple (714) I would expect there to be something there – not just open road. I guess part of the reason why course setters prefer to use 714 is because the cross hatching (709) is such a heavy symbol it obscures everything behind it and a large amount of 709 on the map would make the purple course symbols harder to see.