Our MapRun Christmas Challenge returns for a third year! As ever, we’re trying to get as many people running our MapRun courses as possible over the Christmas period, by providing a sweet incentive. Last year a whopping 59 people took part, with winner Si Read completing a massive 17.5 runs, Read more…
MapRun continues to evolve, and for Bishops Cleeve we have introduced a couple of handy new features to help you download the course, and find information about the venue and event. First of all, rather than trawling through the worldwide folder structure to find the event, you can just scan Read more…
Already a very comprehensive, usable and generally valuable tool both for informal competitive running and for a host of other orienteering related activities – control checking, mapping survey support, and so on – far from sitting back and taking it easy, Peter Effeney in Australia continues to add functionality to Read more…
We are about to start clearing out a lot of our old courses from 2018 and 2019, as many of them haven’t been used for a long time, and we are anyway now starting a programme of replacements as we schedule the new series over the next year or so. Read more…
Richard Cronin earned his 6th 600 club badge last week at Cleeve Foothills, moving him clear top of the leader board in terms of 600 club entries. Paul Dodd has five, and Dan Sandford and Tom Cochrane 4 each. Cleeve Foothills proved a physical but fairly short course, where route Read more…
We have finally finished refurbishing the Highmeadow Permanent course, which included equipping it with QR codes for use, optionally, with MapRun. We have moved a few controls and redesigned the suggested courses. You can find out more on the Courses page here, and once the new courses have been uploaded, Read more…
A note from tonight’s Thornbury maprun organiser, Doug Wilson…. Thank you to everyone who entered the Thornbury MapRun. After being thwarted twice before by lockdown restrictions it was great to eventually hold the event and we had a perfect evening for it. As Thornbury is reasonably flat I wanted to Read more…
We are soon going to start tidying up our inventory of courses, and clearing out the oldest ones to make way for new ones. Many of our old courses no longer have a routegadget component, to show tracks, so whilst you can still run them, you can’t see your track Read more…
We have postponed the publication of the training courses planned for next weekend at Soudley, on the grounds that very few people can legitimately travel to them, and having them there may be seen as encouragement to people to travel unnecessarily. We’ll let you know they will become available. As they say, ” it never rains, but it pours”…..this comes after the original courses had to be re-planned because access to the parking area was partly washed away in the recent rains. Planner Tom Mills will be desperate for someone to run his courses after all the work and rework he has put in – this is the third iteration of them.
Some people have managed to keep up a relentless pace in the Christmas Challenge, whilst others have taken a breather over the actual festive days. Now that the world has clamped down again, we are happy to accept ‘guest’ runs, if you are locked down in Wales, or bubbled up Read more…