Confident Orienteering

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 consist of three books:

Book 1: Fundamentals (published October 2023) — an overview of competition conditions, the nature of mistakes, and strategies to reduce them.
Book 2: Planning Reliable Routes (this volume) — focused on practical route planning techniques.
Book 3: Confident Execution (planned for release in 2026) — dedicated to racing techniques, adaptation, and handling mistakes.

Although the three books can be read independently, they are designed as a unified system with shared terminology and principles. Reading them in sequence is recommended, since later volumes develop and expand the concepts introduced in Book 1: Fundamentals.

All content in the Confident Orienteering Practical Guide is original and has not been published elsewhere.

Confident Orienteering, Book 1 is available here

Aleksandr Alekseyonok, September 18, 2025.

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