{"id":3168,"date":"2021-12-18T19:42:19","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T19:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ngocweb.com\/maprun\/?p=3168"},"modified":"2021-12-18T19:42:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T19:42:19","slug":"maprun-christmas-challenge-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ngocweb.com\/maprun\/news\/maprun-christmas-challenge-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2021 Maprun Christmas Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our MapRun Christmas Challenge returns for a third year!  As ever, 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 a whopping 59 people took part, with winner Si Read completing a massive 17.5 runs, and 13 people getting 10 or more. So this year, like the economy, inflation is increasing, and the target is what last year&#8217;s runners set &#8211; 10 runs. <\/p>\n<h4>How does it work?<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The aim:<\/strong> Run at least 10 of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ngocweb.com\/maprun\/courses\/\">our MapRun courses<\/a> over the Christmas period from <strong>Thursday 16 Dec<\/strong> to <strong>Wednesday 5 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, last year they were half a run each; this year, inflation again, you have to do 4 in one session to get a &#8216;run&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>All courses, regular or variant, towards your total. We&#8217;ll allow mapruns outside our patch provided they are a reasonable effort to complete.  The recently completed Autumn series will be moved shortly into their respective area folders, but until we have done that, if you cant find a particular course in its local folder, look for the course in UK\/Gloucestershire\/Current Series folder.<\/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>The leaderboard will appear in due course, once you have had time to score a few runs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our MapRun Christmas Challenge returns for a third year! As ever, 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 a whopping 59 people took part, with winner Si Read completing a massive 17.5 runs, [&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-3168","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\/3168","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=3168"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ngocweb.com\/maprun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3193,"href":"http:\/\/www.ngocweb.com\/maprun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168\/revisions\/3193"}],"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=3168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ngocweb.com\/maprun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ngocweb.com\/maprun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}