Choose a route from multiple route choice options

Navigation Skills | Route Choice ; | Learn to Train; Active For Life;

Description

This is an introduction to choosing more complex route choices later on. 

At this stage, the skill consists of three parts:

  1. Identify multiple different series of handrails that lead from one control to the next
  2. Identify which series of handrails is shorter
  3. Act on route choice

Resources

The following links point to resources that have been collected and are relevant to this skill (?).

'Route Blast' route choice exercise

(http://www.orienteering.ca/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Route-Blast.pdf)

Description of / instructions for a route choice exercise at Orienteering.ca. 

'Routes' route choice exercise

(http://www.orienteering.ca/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Routes.pdf)

Description of / instructions for a route choice exercise at Orienteering.ca.

Keep the pen running

(http://o-training.net/w/Keep_the_pen_running)

"Take any map, and draw your planned route choice while keeping the pen running all the way from start to finish - never stopping even for half a second, planning your route as you draw."

Play catching features (o-training.net)

(http://o-training.net/w/Play_Catching_Features)

"Play the computer game Catching Features."

Route choice testing (o-training.net)

(http://o-training.net/w/Route_choice_testing)

"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."

Route to Christmas (WorldofO.com)

(http://worldofo.com/news/rgarchive.php)

Route to Christmas is a series of route choice problems online that is run every December on WorldofO.com (since 2007). This link has all of the route from 2007 and 2008. More recent route choices can be found by searching WorldofO.