Route to Christmas: 2024
Route To Christmas: Day 1 2024
The 18th edition of the traditional Route to Christmas here at World of O starts with a long, interesting leg from the Italian stage race Cansiglio O-Meeting. Enjoy the challenges – just like the competitors! Your job in Route to Christmas is to take a good look at the day’s leg, decide which route you would have chosen, and finally draw you
Route To Christmas: Day 2 2024
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2024 takes us to the long distance race Närkekvartetten in Sweden – the 5th race in this years’ Swedish League. A quite interesting long leg where you have to consider straight versus around. The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a look at it and think about how
Route To Christmas: Day 3 2024
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2024 takes us to an interesting leg in French karst terrain at OOCup 2024. Not the longest leg, but still challenging to decide what to do. In the bulletin the terrain was described as hilly terrain, nice mixed forest with many relief details, some boulders and cliffs but overall not overly rocky. Some thicke
Route to Christmas: Day 4 2024
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2024 is a long leg from the Junior World Orienteering Championships Long distance in Czech Republic. This is what the bulletin said about the terrain: The terrain is mostly hilly with rocks and stones in places high up on the hills. Mostly coniferous forest (spruce), in some parts with a larger number of clea
Route to Christmas: Day 5 2024
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2024 is leg an interesting leg from the long distance competition Maximus O Meeting organized in Spain back in February this year. We look at the men’s super-elite course, and again the forest is fast. Comments from the map-makers from the race Bulletin: This is the terrain with very good runnability, f
Route to Christmas: Day 6 2024
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2024 is an interesting leg from one of the large spring-races in Norway – the Halden O-Meeting Long distance organized in the middle of April. This is typical terrain for the Østfold/Halden area, with quite soft ground, many smaller hills and some paths and roads where you can run faster. The leg is a
Route to Christmas: Day 7 2024
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2024 is a spectacular leg from the European Youth Championships (EYOC) organized in Poland this summer. This time the women’s W18 course is chosen. As you can see from the map, this is quite hilly terrain, with quite a few paths and also some roads that could potentially be used for routechoices. Here
Route to Christmas: Day 8 2024
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2024 is taken from one of the nominations for Course of the Year 2024, the Norwegian Long championships organized in the Verdal-area north of Trondheim. Make sure to check out Course of the Year 2024 and submit your nominations in the comment field – there are already around 30 nominated courses whi
Route to Christmas: Day 9 2024
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is again taken from one of the nominations for Course of the Year 2024, the very interesting World Cup Sprint race in Italy this spring. Make sure to check out Course of the Year 2024 and submit your nominations in the comment field – there are already nearly 40 nominated courses which you can se
Route to Christmas: Day 10 2024
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a leg from the legendary “Harry Lagerts” final – a very, very long night orienteering race which is run as a chasing start based on the earlier races in the series. And the chosen leg is of course the longest one. Thanks a lot to Terje Mathisen for the tip – note also that this is agai
Route to Christmas: Day 11 2024
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2024 is an interesting leg from the build-up to the European Championships in Hungary, at the Spring Spatarcus Cup Long distance race. Note that this is again one of the nominations for Course of the Year 2024 – today is the last day to suggest nominations (already more than 40 courses nominated) Th
Route to Christmas: Day 12 2024
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, w
Route to Christmas: Day 13 2024
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2024 is a long leg from the 2nd Austria Cup of the year – a long distance race in a quite hilly area between Graz and Vienna. Thanks a lot to Martin Veitsberger for the tip – Martin has given many tips for good legs over the years! It is great to get a wide variety of terrains and countries in Ro
Route to Christmas: Day 14 2024
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2024 is from a fun map in a very cool area in Czech Republic: Today we traveli to Czech sandstones – a dream area for orienteering! The leg is from the second stage of the Pekne Prazdniny race, organized this August. Thanks a lot to Toby Heppell for the tip! It is as usually first provided without rout
Route to Christmas: Day 15 2024
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2024 is from a night orienteering race on the legendary urban Venezia map – the VeNotte 2024. Can you find a good way through the labyrinth of small roads and bridges? Thanks a lot for the tip and analysis, Luca Rosato! The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a look a
Route to Christmas: Day 16 2024
In today’s edition of Route to Christmas 2024 we travel to New Zealand to a very interesting leg in steep terrain. Thanks a lot to course setter Jakob Knoef for the tip. Here is Jabob’s intro about the terrain – keep this in mind when considering your route choice on the leg: This map is a classic New Zealand pine forest map. This
Route to Christmas: Day 17 2024
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2024 is a long and interesting leg in Slovenian Karst terrain. The chosen leg is the 7th leg from the second stage of Lipica Open – thanks a lot to course setter Ivan Nagy for the tip! The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a look at it and think about how you would at
Route to Christmas: Day 18 2024
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2024 is from a low-profile World Ranking competition in Estonia called Magaziin orienteerumismängud, organized by OK Kobras. Thanks a lot for the tip, Janis Tamuzs! Here is Janis’ take on the terrain: The terrain is typical for the Baltics – green and clearings are generally rather unpleasant, whi
Route to Christmas: Day 19 2024
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2024 is a long leg from the long distance race at the World Cup final in Finland – which was also the pre-WOC for next years’ World Orienteering Championships. The chosen leg is the 3rd leg on the men’s course – one of the most decisive legs on the course as you can read in the overa
Route to Christmas: Day 20 2024
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2024 is a 4.8 km long leg from the Swedish Championships Ultralong. Thanks a lot to Per Forsgren of the course setting team for the tip along with analysis! Note that this was a mass start race – and here is what Per had to say about the race: The more unique and interesting legs are in my opinion the
Route to Christmas: Day 21 2024
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2024 is from one of the Top 10 courses in Course of the Year 2024: The World Orienteering Championships Sprint, organized in Edinburgh, Scotland this July. The chosen leg is one of the decisive legs – the leg to the 15th control in the men’s course and the 13th control in the women’s cours
Route to Christmas: Day 22 2024
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2024 is a quite short leg from the middle distance of the Maximus O Meeting in Spain, organized this February. Here is the terrain description from the bulletin: This terrain offers a fascinating mix of pine and oak forests, enabling high running speeds while demanding flawless technical execution. Additiona
Route to Christmas: Day 23 2024
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2024 is from the long distance race Langløpet, organized this November in the Oslo-area. Thanks a lot to Arild Andersen for the tip! This was a mass start event with some big stars on the start line – including Kasper Fosser and the Norwegian Junior Team. We have chosen the third leg on the “Mid
Route to Christmas: Day 24 2024
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2024 is a long leg from the Finnish Championships long distance. This course is one of the Top 10-finishers in Course of the Year 2024. 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
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Check here if you are one of winners of the prizes worth more than 7000 Euros in total in your voting or nomination for “The Orienteering Course of 2024″! To all winners: Please try to bring as many friends as possible to the event you won a prize for – that will make the sponsors happy! Big thanks go to all voters and to the event spo
Route to Christmas 2024: Bonus leg
Today we offer a bonus leg in Route to Christmas 2024 – a second leg from the World Cup Final long race. This course was already featured on Day 19 – but the leg to control 13 was interesting enough to make a bonus leg. Especially with this being the area for next year’s World Orienteering Championships! The leg is as usually