Confident Orienteering

Confident Orienteering Book 2 cover. We are very close to have a cover for Book 2.  You could read Book 1 here Aleksandr Alekseyonok, September 29, 2025.

Confident Orienteering – Book 2: Last Steps to Publishing From September 20th we will start the very last check — after that comes book registration and publishing! 🚀 Here’s a preview from the Introduction of the upcoming volume: Confident Orienteering — Introduction There is no better feeling in competition than running fast and knowing, with complete confidence, that your navigation will not let you down. The Confident Orienteering Practical Guide was created to give athletes a clear, practical system for reliable navigation under competitive conditions. With solid navigation, results improve, the effort you put into training feels worthwhile, and motivation to keep progressing comes naturally. When Book 1: Fundamentals was first published in 2023, the Practical Guide was planned as a two-volume work. However, in the process of developing the material it became clear that one more volume was needed to fully address the execution phase. The Practical Guide will therefore consis...

 Confident Orienteering  Book 2 is almost here! In about four weeks, Confident Orienteering,  Book 2: Planning Reliable Routes will be published. Here are the chapter titles — just a glimpse of what’s inside: Route Tracking Overview Confidence in Pinpoint Positioning Using All the Indicators for Confident Positioning Structured Route Planning Planning of Bearing Sections Planning of Linear Sections Ensuring a Reliable Control Approach Completing the Control Attack A Step-by-Step Route Choice Procedure Although each book can be read on its own, they are designed as a unified system .  👉 That’s why it’s best to start with Confident Orienteering  Book 1: Fundamentals — it lays the foundation and makes Book 2 much easier to follow. 📖 Book 1: Fundamentals was published in October 2023 and is available here. Aleksandr Alekseyonok, September 10, 2025. 

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  Book 2 Nears the Finish Line Editors Ross Barnett and Clive Allen are now in the final stage of polishing Confident Orienteering Book 2: Planning Reliable Routes . Ross has already done two full read-throughs, which put me on an emotional high – and it’s still going! Clive has started the final proofread before layout. My wife, Svetlana (the book designer), and I are wrapping up the explanatory graphics for the illustrations. The test readers have also finished reading all the chapters. I’ll share their feedback once we start the layout phase. If all goes well, in about two weeks we’ll begin laying out Book 2. The goal is to release it in late September or early October. Fingers crossed everything runs smoothly in these last weeks. Work on Book 3 (Routes executing) is also moving fast. Only two chapters are left – and then the whole Practical Guide  'Confident Orienteering: A Systematic Approach to Minimising Errors' will be complete.  Editing is already underway on...

Bearing Sections: More Than Just a Line Lately, I haven’t had much free time to analyse courses and legs in detail. I’ve been fully immersed in finishing  Confident Orienteering  Book 2 , the continuation of the Practical Guide "Confident Orienteering" , and I want to make sure it’s done to a high standard and on schedule (October 2025). But I’m sure there will be more in-depth analyses here once I wrap up work on the Practical Guide  "Confident Orienteering" project. Right now, I’m in the middle of making adjustments based on feedback from test readers. At the very start of Chapter 5 (one of 9 chapters in this book), “Planning Bearing Sections” , I received a comment from Klas Karlsson: “This is a good chapter, I like it! Good examples as well. Not many comments from my side :)” My response? “I’m really happy about it.” Why? Because bearing sections can be approached in very different ways, and in this chapter I’ve tried to explain how I see these options. I’v...