February and March is training camp time in the warm & sunny countries, and now a lot of interesting maps have started to pop up daily at omaps.worldofo.com by various runners from training camps the last weeks and months. Some of these maps are collected below. Take a look at the maps – map study is always good technical training!

Looking at the webpages of the runners and in their map archives, a lot of runners have chosen Barbate, Spain for their training camps this February. Also, some of the maps posted below are from Turkey and from Slovenia. Enjoy!

World Champs Cross Country Skiing coming up!

World of O’s sister-site for cross country skiing, World of XC is organizing WhoWins for the Cross Country Skiing World Cup. With the World Champs coming up, it is time to get ready for some exciting days with Cross Country Skiing. Why not start by setting up your predictions for the races in Drammen the weekend ahead of the World Champs?

You don’t often get to see Thierry Gueorigou in action for 15 minutes – followed by a camera. Quite shaky – and not the best video quality admittedly – but still a nice one to watch in order to see how the master does it. And if that’s not enough to get some o-technical learning from it: Draw his route on the map in the Webroutes below (forest orienteering + sprint) and compare yourself with others to see how well you hit! Can you spot the error in the end before Thierry?

Video and maps were posted at the Facebook page of I Meeting de Orientação de Gouveia. Thanks to Miguel Reis e Silva for updates about the competitions.

Video

Below you find the video and two Webroutes – one for the first part of the course and one for the second part. Take a look at the map below while watching the video, and try to draw along. In the last part Thierry makes a mistake and has to make a few seconds stop to read the map – can you spot the error before Thierry?

Tip: The second map is easier to follow, and a lot more interesting – so I would start with that one. That starts about 6 minutes into the video. Good luck! Open second map in separate browser window to draw along. And don’t fool yourself by rewinding the video to look a second time – draw based on what you see the first time.

Map – first part of video

Tip: Open the webroute in a second browser window so you can draw while you watch the video. Use a straight line between the places the video jumps.
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Map – second part of video
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