Route to Christmas: Day 1 2008

The 'Route to Christmas' series at World of O was very popular last year - and I've therefore decided to continue the series this Christmas as well. For now I found maps for the first 10 days - and based on tips from YOU, we'll see if Route to Christ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 2 2008

Todays leg in 'Route to Christmas 2008' is leg 3 from the XXIII Oravatonni in Finland at 2008-10-05 - organized by Mynämäen Suunnistajat. The category is M21A. The leg is as usually first provided without routes - you may take a look at it...

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Route to Christmas: Day 3 2008

Todays leg in 'Route to Christmas 2008' is leg 12 from the Tampere-Jukola 2008 at June 14th 2008 - from the last leg. The leg is as usually first provided without routes - you may take a look at it and think about how you would attack thi...

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Route to Christmas: Day 4 2008

Todays leg in 'Route to Christmas 2008' is leg 3 from the Spring Cup 2008 Classic @ 2008-03-29. FIF Hillerød. H 21 E1. The leg is as usually first provided without routes - you may take a look at it and think about how you would attack this...

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Route to Christmas: Day 5 2008

Todays leg in 'Route to Christmas 2008' is leg 6 in H21E from the Løvspretten @ 2008-05-12 organized by Hamar OK og Løten OL. The leg is as usually first provided without routes - you may take a look at it and think about how you would ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 6 2008

Todays leg in 'Route to Christmas 2008' is leg 5 in H21E from the Swiss Champs Middle Distance at April 12th 2008. Note that few of the best have drawn their route (but the winner Matthias Merz has), and therefore not too much can be taken from the r...

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Route to Christmas: Day 7 2008

Todays leg in 'Route to Christmas 2008' is leg 7 in HE from the Swiss Champs long distance 2008 @ 2008-09-07 - OLG Cordoba. This is a really long leg today... The top runners did not draw their route, but it is still an interesting leg. T...

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Route to Christmas: Day 8 2008

Todays leg in 'Route to Christmas 2008' is leg 10 in HE from the Swiss Champs Sprint distance 2008 @ 2008-09-06. Again - not all the best have drawn their routes - but still an interesting leg. There is especially one route which is difficult to spot...

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Route to Christmas: Day 9 2008

Todays leg in 'Route to Christmas 2008' is from the Swiss Champs in MTB-O - leg 12 in the Men Elite course - 2008-08-17. There were many other legs which looked more tricky, but all competitors had taken similar routes. In that respect, this seemingl...

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Route to Christmas: Day 10 2008

Todays leg in 'Route to Christmas 2008' is control 4 on the 5th leg from the Tampere-Jukola 2008 at June 14th 2008. The leg is as usually first provided without routes - you may take a look at it and think about how you would attack this l...

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Route to Christmas: Day 11 2008

Todays leg in 'Route to Christmas 2008' is leg 3 in DE from the 9. Nationaler OL Solothurn @ 2008-10-12 - a street orienteering race. A short leg - you should decide very fast... The leg is as usually first provided without routes - you ma...

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Route to Christmas: Day 12 2008

Todays leg in 'Route to Christmas 2008' is leg from the Hungarian Champs Long Distance - October 25th 2008 - where Daniel Hubmann made one of the most impressive runs of the year. Many world class runners where present - and Hubmann won with impressi...

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Route to Christmas: Day 13 2008

Todays leg in 'Route to Christmas 2008' is leg 11 the longest course in the British Senior Home Internationals (2008-10-26). The leg was submitted by James Tullie. The leg is as usually first provided without routes - you may take a look a...

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Route to Christmas: Day 14 2008

Todays leg in 'Route to Christmas 2008' is leg 18 in Men Elite from the 6. Nationaler Baselbieter OL @ 2008-09-14 (OLV Baselland). A really long leg in alpine terrain - towards the end of the course. Thank you to Stefan Lombriser (running himself) an...

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Route to Christmas: Day 15 2008

Todays leg in ‘Route to Christmas 2008‘ is an extremely long leg from the Highlands Open Long Distance in Cesuna di Roana, Italy - August 31st 2008. Thank you very much to Cristian Bellotto for providing both map and routes of the best runners fo...

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Route to Christmas: Day 16 2008

Todays leg in 'Route to Christmas 2008' is from Thermenlandopen 2008 in Slovenia (Dobrovnik). The category is Men 21 Elite, and the leg chosen is the long leg to control number 8. Thank you very much to Martin Veitsberger who helped collect the route...

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Route to Christmas: Day 17 2008

Todays leg in 'Route to Christmas 2008' is from Finland and KuUS-rastit at 2008-05-17. The chosen leg is leg number 5 from the H21A course. Thank you very much to Kari Hovi for the tip. The leg is as usually first provided without routes -...

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Route to Christmas: Day 18 2008

Todays leg in 'Route to Christmas 2008' is a Ski-Orienteering leg from Finland. The chosen leg is leg 18 in Men 21 from the Hiihtosuunnistuksen SM-kilpailut @ 2008-03-15. Thanks to Sindre Jansson Haverstad to the tip about the competition. ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 19 2008

Todays leg in 'Route to Christmas 2008' is from Copa Catalana - Saldes 08 in Spain @ 2008-06-01. The chosen leg is leg 11 in Course 1. Thank you to Eva Jurenikova for the tip about the competition. The leg is as usually first provided witho...

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Route to Christmas: Day 20 2008

Todays leg in 'Route to Christmas 2008' is leg 26 in HE from the Swiss Champs long distance 2008 @ 2008-09-07 - OLG Cordoba. Again not all the best runners have drawn their route - but still an interesting leg with several different options taken by ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 21 2008

Today we present a leg from an Israeli event based on the Israeli course planning championship, held in Park Canada on December 13th. The leg is the 9th leg in the longest course. Thank you very much to the course planner Dan Chissick for preparing m...

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Route to Christmas: Day 22 2008

Todays leg in 'Route to Christmas 2008' is another leg from the Hungarian Champs Long Distance - October 25th 2008 - where Daniel Hubmann made one of the most impressive runs of the year. Many world class runners where present - and Hubmann won with ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 23 2008

Today we present several legs from WMOC 2008 Long Final in Portugal in 'Route to Christmas 2008' @ 2008-07-05. The first three legs are from Men 45 - the last one is from Men 40. Note that not all the best runners have drawn their routes, so you won'...

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Route to Christmas: Day 24 2008

Todays leg in 'Route to Christmas 2008' is from one of the rock labyrinth areas near to Le Caylar, on the Plateau du Larzac. - Wonderful to run on, even better to plan the courses, says Ray Hulse who gave the tip of this leg. Le Caylar is also the ar...

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Route to Christmas 2008: Bonus

Todays leg in 'Route to Christmas 2008' is a bonus leg - as we are already at December 25th. It is leg 14 in Men 21E from the French Champs Long Distance 2008 @ 2008-08-23. Thank you very much to Eva Jurenikova for the tip. The leg is as usu...

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Route to Christmas 2008: Bonus 2

The second Bonus route in 'Route to Christmas 2008' is from the sprint competition Ribbe&Loff 2008 @ 2008-12-13 by Sentrum OK. We are looking at the men 21 category. The leg is as usually first provided without routes - you may take a look a...

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Route to Christmas 2008: Bonus 3

The third Bonus route in 'Route to Christmas 2008' is from Ås by Night & Fog 2008 #1 @ 2008-11-25 by Ås-UMB Orientering. We are looking at the men 17 category. The leg is as usually first provided without routes - you may take a look at...

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Route to Christmas 2008: Bonus 4

The fourth Bonus route in 'Route to Christmas 2008' is again from Ås by Night & Fog 2008 #1 @ 2008-11-25 by Ås-UMB Orientering. We are still looking at the men 17 category - but now leg number 17. The leg is as usually first provided wi...

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Route to Christmas: Day 5 2007

One leg with potentially interesting route choice alternatives each day until Christmas is the topic of this years Advent Calendar here at World of O. Did you miss Day 1-4? No problem - so did I - so just enjoy the last 19 days instead. Today's le...

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Route to Christmas: Day 6 2007

Todays leg is the second leg from last years Forssa Games in Turku, Finland - at June 15th 2006. You find the final overall results here. Note that there is no route choice available for the winner Tero Föhr - and other strong runners like Jani Laka...

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Route to Christmas: Day 7 2007

Today: Estonia. A leg from Ilves 3-days competition, 2007-05-06, in the H20A/H21A/H35A categories. First the leg without any route choices. Then with route choices. Source: Routegadget from Ilves 3...

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Route to Christmas: Day 8 2007

Today a leg from a local night competition in Bergen, Norway. The leg in itself is maybe not very interesting - but interesting here is that widely different route choices are nearly equal in time. First the leg without routes: With routes: ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 9 2007

Today's leg is from an Australian National League Long Distance Event. Here is what todays Neil Barr writes about this: - Our club runs one of the two Route Gadget sites in Australia. I suspect this is the most utilised of the two. I have trawled ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 10 2007

Todays leg is leg 5 from the Hungarian competition Borsod Kupa 2007 at 2007-06-02 for the category M21E. The tip is from Stig Alvestad - thank you very much to Stig! First take a look at the map without routes - and think about how you wou...

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Route to Christmas: Day 11 2007

Todays leg is leg 2 in HE from the Swiss Champs Long Distance 2006 in Crans-Montana at August 20th 2006 with OLG Wallis / CO Valais as organizers. First take a look at the map without routes - and think about how you would attack this leg ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 12 2007

Todays leg is leg 17 in HE from the Swiss Champs Long Distance 2006 in Crans-Montana at August 20th 2006 with OLG Wallis / CO Valais as organizers. First take a look at the map without routes - and think about how you would attack this leg...

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Route to Christmas: Day 13 2007

Todays leg is leg 11 in category H21E from the Latvian race "Kurzemes Pavasaris" in Garâ at April 7th 2007. Note that not all the best runners have drawn their route choice - route choices and times given here are relative to the ones who have drawn...

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Route to Christmas: Day 14 2007

Todays leg is leg 8 from the long distance at the Junior World Orienteering Champs in Australia this year. The route choice drawing + splits is prepared by Christian Bobach - thanks a lot to Christian! - Australian granit terrains kan make som realy ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 15 2007

Todays leg is from the unofficial Norwegian Youth Champs 2006 (Hovedløpet) in Norway - north of Trondheim. Leg 14 in the oldest category - H16 - is chosen. This leg is not exceptionally difficult nor long - but it is interesting to note how it is at...

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Route to Christmas: Day 16 2007

Todays leg is an interesting leg from the WCOC long distance event in Canada at 8th of October 2007 (Thanks to Louise Osram for the tip!). Courses 10 (elite male) and 9 (elite women/35+ men/19- men) had the same leg. First take a look at ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 17 2007

The monsterleg to the second control in this years Finnish night champs (Karkkila) is already famous as it marked the start of one of the many interesting fights between the two best male orienteers in 2008 - Thierry Gueorgiou and Matthias Merz (than...

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Route to Christmas: Day 18 2007

Todays leg is from the first leg in M18 at this years Junior European Cup Classic distance at October 13th in Aveyron, France. The terrain is very special - open, stony and technical. First take a look at the map without routes - and think...

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Route to Christmas: Day 19 2007

Todays leg is from the "Championnat de France classique" at August 20th 2005 in the category HSeE. A relatively short leg, but with several distinct route choice alternatives. First take a look at the map without routes - and think about ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 20 2007

Todays leg is from a national Finnish event close to Helsinki at May 25th 2005. The chosen leg is leg number 16 in H21A (Thanks again to Jarkko Ryyppö for the tip). It is a rather long leg, with several different options. First take a loo...

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Route to Christmas: Day 21 2007

Todays leg is from the 2. Austria Cup 2007 at April 22nd 2007. The chosen leg is leg number 12 in H35, which is also very similar to leg number 13 in H20E/H21L. It is a long leg with quite a few route choice alternatives. The difference between the d...

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Route to Christmas: Day 22 2007

Todays leg is a really long and interesting leg from this years Norwegian Champs long distance at September 13th in the Hamar region north of the Norwegian capital Oslo. For runners not used to Nordic terrain, one these legs will definitely be a real...

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Route to Christmas: Day 23 2007

Todays leg is from Switzerland - and the competition is the 5. National Chuderhüsi at september 22nd 2007. The chosen leg is leg 12 from the men elite course. A long leg, where the main challenge is to avoid climbing while still not running to far. ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 24 2007

To celebrate the last day in this years "Route to Christmas", I have chosen a really long leg from the Norwegian Champs in night orienteering with several different distinct route choice options. Organizers were NTNUI orienteering, and the venue was...

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Route to Christmas: Small bonus 2007

Just a small bonus leg from this years Norwegian Champs long distance at September 13th covered at December 22nd. The main thing here is not the route choices in themselves, but rather what happens when you are really tired (after the long leg covere...

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Route to Christmas: Bonus 2 2007

Another small bonus leg - this time from the "Lang-SM" in Toppwald at september 23rd 2007 - the leg is leg 12 for the category HE. First take a look at the map without routes - and think about how you would attack this leg (if the map is ...

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Route to Christmas
Route to Christmas is a series of interesting legs with route choice challenges presented at World of O in December 2008 and 2007. All the presented legs are summarized on this page.


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