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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2024 is another Sprint leg – this time a leg from a high profile event – the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) Knock-Out Sprint.
Thanks a lot to Jon Cross for the suggestion and analysis. Jon writes that it would perhaps be interesting with a leg from the Knock-out Sprint Quarter-Final, which had less coverage and so probably does not have so many of your readers familiar with it. And I fully agree with Jon, I hadn’t studied this leg myself, and it was difficult to understand it fully from the GPS-data. Luckily Jon was the course planner, and could provide us with a very nice analysis. The chosen leg is the leg from control 6 to 7 in both the men’s and women’s course.
The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a look at it and think about how you would attack this leg (if the image is too small, you may click on it to get it larger):
Location
You find other maps from the area in omaps.worldofo.com here. See also latest additions in 3DRerun from this area in order to learn more about this terrain type.
Webroute
Next you can draw your own route using the ‘Webroute’ below. Think through how you would attack this leg, and draw the route you would have made. Some comments about why you would choose a certain route are always nice for the other readers.
Then you can take a look at the alternatives given in Jon’s analysis:
And finally below the original slide that was used for the commentator briefing the night before the race, showing possible routes and planner/tst runner estimates of the difference between them. In addition, Jon has added to that slide a table that shows which routes were taken in each of the 12 quarter-finals, and what the fastest time on each route was in each quarter-final.
Jon’s analysis:
Density map
See below for a density map of some of the ones who have drawn their routes so far (available during the day when some readers have drawn their route).
Additional information
You find the complete map in omaps.worldofo.com at this location.
Route to Christmas series
The Route to Christmas series is a pre-Christmas tradition at World of O – giving the readers the opportunity to do one Route Choice Challenge each day from December 1st until December 24th. If you have got any good legs in GPSSeuranta, 3DRerun, Loggator or Livelox from 2024-competitions, or old forgotten ones which are still interesting, please email me the link at Jan@Kocbach.net, and I’ll consider including it in Route to Christmas if it looks good. Route to Christmas gets interesting due to YOUR contribute!
Not all legs are taken for the interesting routechoice alternatives – some are also taken because the map is interesting – or because it is not straightforward to see what to do on a certain leg. Any comments are welcome – especially if you ran the event chosen for todays leg!
