Confident Orienteering

  Сourse planning #1 I would like to introduce a new rubric where I will evaluate various courses based on the quality of their planning. I believe that such discussions will help someone improve their course planning skills. Yesterday in the group  Orienteering Technical trainings , I asked subscribers to guess the country from this part of the map. Many of you, of course, recognised it as Norway. There were other guesses, though. Let's go into a little more detail.  This is a map from the event on 28 June. a traditional mid-summer multi-day event for the southern regions of Norway.  Sørlandsgaloppen 2024, dag 2 Norway 6/28/2024 According to information on Livelox, these competitions are organised by three clubs: Bø OL, Porsgrunn OL, Skien OK, We can see on the presented map section some rocky ground and boulder clusters. This is unlikely to be typical of the Baltic countries.  However the most important thing is the structure of the terrain with marshes at different levels. Th

 The long-awaited premiere! Just a few minutes ago, sales of my book "Confident Orienteering Book 1" started in Danish.   Michael Nygaard Møller did the translation and prepared the book for publication in PDF format. He also made the book available in EPUB format, which is a great advantage, as readers can zoom in on their devices to see the text and images better.  A presentation of the book, preview versions, reviews and an example EPUB format can be found on this Michael's website  and on Facebook page. Danish - This is the fourth language in which the book has been released (Other languages: English - the original version of the book; French and Ukrainian).  It's only been 9 months since the original book came out!!!  In the coming weeks, I will do a series of posts and introduce  translators of these books in more detail. YOU should to know who did these projects for you!!  the original English version of the book is available here Aleksandr Alekseyonok , June

    Left, Right, or Straight: Leg Analysis #16 leg 2-3 from W21 couuse of Swedish League, #5, long (WRE) We often have to choose from several possible routes on a leg, typically from two. Sitting at the table, we can use a ruler to determine the route accurately, but we are interested in quick calculations that can be performed under race conditions. An approximate order of operations for this leg might be as follows: We make an assessment of the main idea of this leg and a general assessment of the relief. We have a difficult control point (control 3) on a slope. Two possible route choices are immediately obvious, as we need to avoid the big cliff at the start of the leg. Right route: using the main road with a long approach to the control. Left route: taking the trail, which has less extension. The approach to the control is also long but seems easier as it goes from above downwards. Relief assessment: we are descending 50 metres on this leg. The left route has no elevation ga

  Breaking Barriers: 'Confident Orienteering Book 1' Soon Available in 7 Languages Today I signed an agreement to translate my book "Confident Orienteering Book 1" into Italian. Exactly a month ago, the same agreement was signed for the translation into Serbian. The flags in the picture indicate in which languages "Confident Orienteering BOOK 1" has already been released or will be released in the near future (in PDF format). English: original book French and Ukrainian —published. French is even available in printed form. Danish and Polish are expected to be published during June–July 2024. Serbian and Italian are expected to be published at the end of 2024. I never get tired of thanking my team, volunteers and translators for their work.  Together we made this project and are developing it further.  reviews and a preview of the book here Aleksandr Alekseyonok, June 14, 2024

       Left, Right, or Straight #16 Would you run left or right? (long distance,  5 metre controur interval) (event: Swedish League #5 - D21 10.05.2024 Örebro) Source: http://www.tulospalvelu.fi/gps/ Aleksandr Alekseyonok, June 11, 2024

 Find Errors Puzzle #1 In the first edition of this new series, I invite you to find six errors in the depiction of the relief on this map.  See below for a map showing the locations of the bugs, followed by detailed explanations for each one. 1.  Index contour   Every fifth contour shall be drawn with a thicker line. This is an aid to the quick assessment of height difference and the overall shape of the terrain surface. 2. There should be four regular contours between two neighboring index contours of different levels. Therefore, there cannot be a depression here. This index contour shows a hill. 3.  If there is a depression on the top of the hill, it should be shown by the index contour (case A). However it can also be the top of the hill. Then there is an unnecessary slope line here (case B). 4. Judging by the surrounding forms, a hill rather than a depression would be more appropriate here. Although, purely theoretically, a depression is also possible. However, in this case, we ha

Progress of "Confident Orientering" Book 1  The first publication of the "Confident Orienteering Book1: Fundamentals" is 25 October 2023 in English. So far translated in 4 countries: France , Ukraine , Denmark and Poland.  Also in the process of translation into Serbian Books in Danish and Polish will be available in just days or weeks.  English, Ukrainian and French - digital books are available in PDF format.  Printed version - only in French at the moment.  A preview version, feedback from editors and readers is available here.  Aleksandr Alekseyonok, June 6, 2023.

    Left, Right, or Straight: Leg Analysis #15 On the 31st of May, a long-distance race was held as part of the training camp for the Youth European Championships in Poland.  These courses offered the competitors many typical legs for this type of terrain.  One of them is the  leg 3-4 for M18, M16 (same leg 2-3 for D18, D16).  This leg offered a range of three classic route variations.  - the shortest, but with two 30 metre slopes. - the middle  with one slope. (+200 metres of distance) - longest with  0.5 slope. (+ 350 metres of distance). On the Livelox website, we can see only a few  GPS tracks of the competitors, and we do not know their strength or with what effort they ran this distance. But it can still be seen that, among equal-speed competitors, the straight route lost to the right by about 30 seconds on average. See the tracks of D 18 class The left one is about equal to or better than the right one. However, very little information is available. A few competitors ran that