Comments on: Route to Christmas: Day 22 2022

By: Parkino

Parkino — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 20:44:09 +0000

Fair enough. I agree RC has a role in middle-distance. I would have used the path, though the time losses for not doing so were bigger than might have been expected.

Thanks.

By: Jan Kocbach

Jan Kocbach — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 10:06:05 +0000

While I agree that it was maybe difficult to understand that straight was that much slower on this leg, I strongly disagree that you should always be fine by running straight in any Middle race, route choice should be important there as well, at least for one longer leg..

By: Parkino

Parkino — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 09:19:03 +0000

Yes. The route choice was decisive and I found that less than satisfactory. In middle distance I feel the presumption should be that going more or less straight will be competitive as long as you spike the control. Here you cannot know exactly how much slower the green(s) will be.

By: Jo

Jo — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 18:02:25 +0000

This leg reminds me what Theirry wrote about leg 18 in the WOC middle distance 2015.
I think it is difficult to say from the map what is the fastest route, the map doesn’t give you all the require information. And I don’t think it should be such a decisive leg in an international event middle distance.
I’m not talking about route choices in general, but about route choices crossing green sections