{"id":2439,"date":"2020-12-16T17:04:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T17:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ngocweb.com\/maprun\/?p=2439"},"modified":"2020-12-21T12:12:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T12:12:45","slug":"maprun-christmas-challenge-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ngocweb.com\/maprun\/news\/maprun-christmas-challenge-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Maprun Christmas Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our MapRun Christmas Challenge returns this year!  Like last year, we&#8217;re trying to get as many people running our MapRun courses as possible over the Christmas period, by providing a sweet incentive.  Last year 28 people took part, with seven earning chocolate.<\/p>\n<h4>How does it work?<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The aim:<\/strong> Run at least 8 of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ngocweb.com\/maprun\/courses\/\">our MapRun courses<\/a> over the Christmas period from <strong>Sat 19 Dec<\/strong> to <strong>Mon 4 Jan<\/strong>,\n<li><strong>The prize:<\/strong> Chocolate &#8211; you can pick it up at one of our MapRun events in the new year.  Bigger chocolate prizes will be available for those who run the most courses!\n<\/ul>\n<p>Everyone&#8217;s eligible, whether you&#8217;re a seasoned MapRunner or new to the game.<\/p>\n<h4>Courses<\/h4>\n<p>We have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ngocweb.com\/maprun\/courses\/\">Courses<\/a> around Gloucestershire and Herefordshire, with some just across the border into Worcestershire and Wales. <strong>(NB: check COVID rules before you travel).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Most of our courses have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ngocweb.com\/maprun\/event-format\/\">a standard format<\/a>: you have one hour to collect as many points as possible by visiting up to 30 checkpoints.<\/p>\n<p>We have other variants too: from MapRides designed for bikes, to super-short Micro-Orienteering courses (as these are so short, they&#8217;re worth half a credit each!)<\/p>\n<p>All courses, regular or variant, towards your total &#8211; basically anything within the Gloucestershire and Worcestershire folders.  We also have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ngoc.org.uk\/other-events\/nyd-rodborough-common\/\">an event on New Year&#8217;s Day<\/a> at Rodborough Common, which counts as well.  Do sign up for that and come along.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll keep an eye on progress, and if you have any problems, drop us a line at <a href=\"mailto:maprun@ngoc.org.uk?subject=Christmas Challenge\">maprun@ngoc.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Current leaderboard<\/h4>\n<p>Find the current leaderboard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ngocweb.com\/maprun\/christmas-leader-board\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our MapRun Christmas Challenge returns this year! Like last year, we&#8217;re trying to get as many people running our MapRun courses as possible over the Christmas period, by providing a sweet incentive. Last year 28 people took part, with seven earning chocolate. How does it work? The aim: Run at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.ngocweb.com\/maprun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/runner5.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ngocweb.com\/maprun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ngocweb.com\/maprun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ngocweb.com\/maprun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ngocweb.com\/maprun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ngocweb.com\/maprun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2439"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.ngocweb.com\/maprun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2507,"href":"http:\/\/www.ngocweb.com\/maprun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions\/2507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ngocweb.com\/maprun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ngocweb.com\/maprun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ngocweb.com\/maprun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ngocweb.com\/maprun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}