About me

Hi!

My name is Aleksandr Alekseyonok.

I've been an orienteer since 1986 with many good results in youth and junior classes. I was an elite athlete from 1993 to 2003. I've earned the title of champion of Belarus several times in various disciplines: middle, long, and relay events.

I participated in JWOC 1994 and various stages of World Championships, European Championships, and World Cup events.

As of 2018, I have been an IOF Advisor; however, my involvement has been suspended since 2022 due to sanctions for all Belarusian athletes and coaches because of the Belarus government supplying Russia in its war unleashed in Ukraine.

Throughout my career, I've taken on diverse roles within the Federation of Belarus, including serving as the head of the inspection service and coaching youth and junior teams.

In addition, I've contributed as a coach in some WOC, EYOC, and JWOC events. The Federation of Belarus has honored me several times as the best course maker of the year.

I've also worked as a personal coach, specializing in orienteering technique, for athletes of various levels.

Unfortunately, due to political repression and the threat of imprisonment on political grounds, my family and I were forced to leave our country two years ago. We currently reside in Poland.

At the end of 2023 I released the first part of the Practical Guide for Advanced Orienteers

"Confident Orienteering Book 1: The Basics".

Book 1 is an e-book originally published in English and has already been translated into several countries.

The second part of the Practical Guide Book 2 "Planning and Executing Routes" is expected to be released in early 2025.

Aleksandr Alekseyonok, November 2023.

My personal Fasebook page: https://www.facebook.com/aleksandr.alekseyonok

I am also the creator and co-author of the Facebook group on Orineteering.

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Left, Right, or Straight: Leg Analysis #13

Left, Right, or Straight: Leg Analysis #13 Today we will take a close look at the route choice for leg 5-6 from the women's elite long-distance at the "Närkekvartetten" 3-day event in Sweden (May 11, 2024) The altitude gain on this leg will not have a significant effect on the route choice. The right-hand route doesn't look bad in the first half, with a fairly large section along the road. However, after the stream (point A), there is difficult navigation with challenging runnability. Therefore, we will abandon this route and choose between the 'direct' and 'left' routes. The straight and left routes are identical up to the midpoint (point B). Therefore, we have ample time on the course to make a decision. Additionally, the alternative of running to point B on the right side of the road (orange track) is not favourable as it involves a longer path compared to the straight route to point B, where there is a long path. Let's look at the differe...

Left, Right, or Straight: Leg Analysis #15

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 info...

Left, Right, or Straight: Leg Analysis #18

Left, Right, or Straight: Leg Analysis #18 Presented leg 6-7 from the middle distance of the Norwegian Masters Championship 2024 (15.09. 2024; M65 class). Of the possible three routes, the left route goes over the hill and has almost the same lengthening as the right route (which has no climb). So we're not considering left route for execution. On the direct route there is a very steep slope to climb up. It takes a lot of time. See a comparison drawing of the best routes of straight and right. The right route turns out to be the fastest, while it is possible to see other legs ahead on the road. However, it is important to take the shortest route to the road from control 6. See a comparison drawing of two right routes on this leg ( best time on the leg and the course leader who only had 7th time on this leg). See also all routes of M65 class on this leg Source: https://www.livelox.com/Viewer/Veteranmesterskapet-mellom/H65-?classId=84...

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