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One Year of "Confident Orienteering"

 One Year of "Confident Orienteering"

A few days ago marked one year since I released my first book on orienteering in digital format.

“Confident Orienteering: A Systematic Approach to Minimising Errors. Book 1: Fundamentals” dives into why mistakes happen in orienteering and provides strategies to avoid them. 

The upcoming Book 2—Routes Planning and Execution—will focus on putting these strategies into action in real-life scenarios. Though we initially aimed to release it in 2024, it will now be ready by mid-2025 at the earliest. Progress is steady, and the same great team from Book 1 is still with me. We’ve completed about 70% of the text, but we still have a lot of work on illustrations, with over 300 examples planned.

I’ll soon share a separate post about the amazing people contributing to this project, as well as one about Book 1 translations, highlighting the fantastic translators who made the book available in other languages.

For now, I have two updates to share:

  1. Quick Stats: Readers from 43 countries have purchased the book! It’s been translated and published in four languages so far: French, Ukrainian, Danish, and Polish. The French edition is the only one available in print, while the others remain digital. We are working on three more translations—Italian, Serbian, and Portuguese—and hope to release them by the end of winter.

  2. Most importantly, a huge thank you! Thank you to everyone who has bought and supported the book. Your trust means the world to me. Your reviews are incredibly valuable too. Some of you have said it’s the best book on orienteering you’ve ever read, which keeps our team motivated to make this project the best it can be.

If you’ve thought about leaving a review for Confident Orienteering, Book 1 but haven’t yet, I’d love to hear your feedback. I post all signed reviews in a shared Google folder, whether they’re fully positive or include constructive thoughts. You can email your review to me at aaliaksandr1357@gmail.com.

I’ve consolidated a preview version of the book, editor and reader reviews, and links to the original and translated editions in one shared folder here:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1AJAdbUu6RhjfuOqjCs7unfclLTBmfgQ1?usp=drive_link

Sincerely, Aleksandr Alekseyonok, November 5, 2024.


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