Route choice testing

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Orienteering Exercise: Route choice testing

Key information
Exercise Type: Route choice
Target Level: Elite level, Junior level, Intermediate level
Intensity: Low, Medium, High
Preparation time: Less than 5 minutes
OCAD Required: No
Min participants: 1

Course with many long legs with route choice alternatives. The time for the different routes are compared. See below for several variants. Comparing GPS tracks after the training is a very good way to evaluate the training.

Aim: Understand which route is fastest. Especially important to do this type of exercise in a new terrain.
Variants: Variant A: Each runner runs the route they would like.

Variant B: The runners are asked to run specific routes Variant C: The runners run through the course several times, testing the different routes Variant D: Two/Three runners run together and always take different routes. Wait at each control and in this way see which route is the fastest.

Aids: None required
Terrain: A terrain in which not the straight line is always the fastest.
Preparations: A course with many long legs, in which it is not very obvious which route choice is the fastest.
Tips: Splits for all legs is important in the evaluation. It is also important that all runners run at the same intensity. Comparing GPS tracks after the training is a very good way to evaluate the training, especially if the physical/technical level of the runners who participate in the training varies.
Examples:
Image Route choice testing.jpg Course with many long legs with route choice alternatives. The time for the different routes are compared. See below for several variants. Comparing GPS tracks after the training is a very good way to evaluate the training.
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