Discussion: Full Speed, No Mistakes.

This makes sense.

They're also doing a series of posts: The Route to Christmas.

Every day 'till Christmas they're posting a leg and the winning routes with their percentages slower than the leaders. Some of them are very interesting to see what I would do, what really worked and how the tiniest decision can change the outcome of the race.

All of the articles including the Route to Christmas are here.

Makes sense, yes. Pulling it off, of course, is a whole 'nuther thing. I wish he went into how he actually trained this, because it certainly appears to be a fine strategy.

The traditional No Speed, Full Mistakes method looks much more fun in RouteGadget.

In Cristina's Log last June we were discussing running in Finnish terrain.

Bubo found and posted a link (Found it!!) at the bottom of the thread which will allow download of a very detailed .pdf file of Tero's route and map simplification of a 2004 WOC run. He shows the map for each leg, then simplifies, and shows a second map containing just the features he "saw" and used to get to the control. In addition he adds commentary in his broken English.

I've spent a lot of time reading through Tero's reasoning on each leg...very helpful.

Here is the the great link to Tero's analysis that chitownclark cited above. Comparing the simplified mapped legs to the actuals is very instructive.