Check out the 62 nominations for the "Orienteering Course of the Year" in this ScrollOstory! Very cool to scroll through all the great courses, read the nomination texts, zoom in on the interesting legs and think through how to best solve the legs. Thanks to everybody for their nominations, and of course also to the sponsors! Check out the ScrollOstory and then head over to vote and win prizes worth more than 7000 Euro! omaps.worldofo.com/modern/li…

Late night work doing the in-depth analysis of the #EOC2025 Sprint yesterday, but definitely worth it. This was not your regular, boring, flat city sprint - check it out!

The analysis from the long distance of the World Orienteering Champs is worth a read! Lots of details to dive into to understand how Simona Aebersold🇨🇭 took gold after Tove Alexandersson🇸🇪 lost the gold medal "out of her pocket" towards the end of the 95 minute challenging course. And how Kasper Fosser🇳🇴 was just the better orienteer - from start to finish - for the third time in a row! 👇

🚨🚨New #ParaCrossCountrySkiing study in @EurJSportSci where we analyzed race data from 68 elite Para-skiers! 🎿🏔️ 🔗 #OpenAccess link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… #ParaSports #ParaNordicSkiing #SportScience #PerformanceAnalysis @JuliaKBaumgart @OyvindSandbakk @jankoc

New Article: Course of the Year 2024: Overall Top 20 as of now: After 5 days of voting, courses from 9 countries are represented in the Top 20 of “Course of the Year 2024″: Italy, Czech Republic, Norway,  Sweden, Portugal, Great Britain, France, Hungary… news.worldofo.com/2024/12/18…

Another one of my pre-Christmas traditions: Go ahead and suggest your candidates in the 13th edition of the "Orienteering Course of the Year" - prizes for more than 7000 EUR for those suggesting/voting this year - I've never had that many prizes before. The prizes include entry packages for the 5 Days Madonna di Campiglio in Italy, 5 5 Days Sardinia, the 57th Kainuu Orienteering Week in Finland, and the MOC Camp in Italy. From Portugal, we have prizes for the ABOM 2025 and LIOM 2025, while Slovenia offers packages for the Lipica Open and the Easter 4 competition. There are also entries for the OOCup (Slovenia/Italy), the Sudety Cup in Poland, and the Vienna Orienteering Challenge in Austria. Special family-friendly prizes include the Kapa 3-Days event in Latvia. Additional offerings include a 3-year license for OCAD Orienteering Software and personal coaching sessions with the Confident Orienteering package. Check out the 15 nominations so far - and suggest your own favourites!

18th year in a row with a busy December looking back at the most interesting route choice legs of the year: Join the hundreds of others who draw their daily route in Route to Christmas!

New Article: World Cup Final 2024: All You Need To Know: Starting with a long distance race on Thursday – and continuing with a middle distance on Saturday and a relay on Sunday – the World’s best orienteers will gather in Kuopio, Finland to compete for… news.worldofo.com/2024/09/25…

This year my focus for training the first half of the year was short trail running races like @ZegamaAizkorri and @SierreZinal . I wrote a blog post about how I planned and trained for it: mtnath.com/training2024/

Legendary course from Nordic Orienteering Champs 1984! Had this one on my wall when growing up. Looks like you can do it as "UsynligO" now👌

The analysis of #WOC2024 Sprint is well worth a read! An amazing Sprint course with lots of challenges - you couldn't even begin to understand how the races were decided from the TV-broadcasts alone. Some screenshots included below, hit the link for the full story 👇

Every mountain, building and tree shadow in the world simulated for any date and time - shademap.app

- Knowledge gaps are often filled with nonsense, particularly in the arena of sports performance - Stay on top of new technology, but don’t lose track of the basics (good quotes by @DrPhilipSkiba here)

👟 New blog post! 👟The science of super spikes runningwritings.com/2024/04/…

Jan Kocbach kicking off the Nordic Winter Sports Conference in Meråker with his presentation on racing and pacing demands in XC skiing @NordicWSC @SenTIF_NTNU @Norduniversitet @MidSwedenUni

OUR LATEST: Ski-orienteering: A unique mix of endurance, strategy, and mental agility. First comprehensive study: history, demands, potential. #SkiOrienteering #EnduranceSport #WinterOlympics #ScienceInSport ⁦⁦@svorientering⁩ ⁦@SWEOlympic⁩ link.springer.com/article/10…

New Article: Course of the Year 2023: Last Chance to Vote!: Monday December 25th is the last chance to vote in Course of the Year 2023 – and win prizes worth more than 5500 Euro! Did you already deliver your vote?  See Top 8 for now above – and deliver… news.worldofo.com/2023/12/25…

New Article: Route To Christmas: Day 3 2023: Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is the longest leg in the Swiss Championships long distance in challenging Jura terrain. Thanks a lot to Christoph Salzmann for the tip! This is typical Jura terrain… news.worldofo.com/2023/12/03…