The analysis from the long distance of the World Orienteering Champs is worth a read! Lots of details to dive into to understand how Simona Aebersold🇨🇭 took gold after Tove Alexandersson🇸🇪 lost the gold medal "out of her pocket" towards the end of the 95 minute challenging.

RT @CicciSeverin: 🚨🚨New #ParaCrossCountrySkiing study in @EurJSportSci where we analyzed race data from 68 elite Para-skiers! 🎿🏔️. 🔗 #Open….

RT @worldofo: New Article: Course of the Year 2024: Overall Top 20 as of now: After 5 days of voting, courses from 9 countries are represe….

Another one of my pre-Christmas traditions: Go ahead and suggest your candidates in the 13th edition of the "Orienteering Course of the Year" - prizes for more than 7000 EUR for those suggesting/voting this year - I've never had that many prizes before. The prizes include entry.

18th year in a row with a busy December looking back at the most interesting route choice legs of the year: Join the hundreds of others who draw their daily route in Route to Christmas!.

RT @worldofo: New Article: World Cup Final 2024: All You Need To Know: Starting with a long distance race on Thursday – and continuing wit….

RT @kilianj: This year my focus for training the first half of the year was short trail running races like @ZegamaAizkorri and @SierreZinal….

Legendary course from Nordic Orienteering Champs 1984! Had this one on my wall when growing up. Looks like you can do it as "UsynligO" now👌.

The analysis of #WOC2024 Sprint is well worth a read! An amazing Sprint course with lots of challenges - you couldn't even begin to understand how the races were decided from the TV-broadcasts alone. Some screenshots included below, hit the link for the full story 👇

RT @shademap: Every mountain, building and tree shadow in the world simulated for any date and time - https://t.co/….

- Knowledge gaps are often filled with nonsense, particularly in the arena of sports performance. - Stay on top of new technology, but don’t lose track of the basics. (good quotes by @DrPhilipSkiba here).

RT @JDruns: 👟 New blog post! 👟The science of super spikes

RT @DionneNoordhof: Jan Kocbach kicking off the Nordic Winter Sports Conference in Meråker with his presentation on racing and pacing deman….

RT @HCHolmberg1: OUR LATEST: Ski-orienteering: A unique mix of endurance, strategy, and mental agility. First comprehensive study: history,….

RT @worldofo: New Article: Course of the Year 2023: Last Chance to Vote!: Monday December 25th is the last chance to vote in Course of the….

RT @worldofo: New Article: Route To Christmas: Day 3 2023: Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is the longest leg in the Swiss Champion….

Prompt: - Show me a man running in an open forest towards an orienteering control => Seems like it isn't mainstream knowledge what an orienteering control looks like, at least chatGPT had trouble even after several attempts to refine. (orienteering map is even worse, though)

Enjoyed this one on Saturday evening - Jukola delivers impressive events every time!.

Great work, @gpsseurantanet!.

Thanks all for following Route to Christmas, and especially to all drawing and commenting! Within end of year we will probably get close to 8.000 drawn routes on the 24 route choice puzzles🙏Why not use the quiet days to go back and check out if you got all? Happy holidays!.