King's Stanley 2022
This week's MapRun is a mixed urban/rural event: the village streets of King's Stanley and Leonard Stanley are surrounded by field footpaths. There's also the option of heading for the hills, up the Cotswold escarpment and into the woods.
Directions and Parking
Parking and assembly will be at the public car park in the centre of Kings Stanley.
The Area
About half of the checkpoints will be in the villages, accessible via streets and paved footpaths. The other half will be on footpaths in the surrounding fields and woods.
Footpaths are generally good - there may be some encroaching nettles but nothing too overgrown. The terrain gets very steep as you approach the hills!
Timing and Fees
Starts from 1830 to 1900.
To guarantee a map, you will need to pre-enter via Fabian4: this is open until midnight on Tue 24 May (note this is a day earlier than for recent events). A few extra maps will be available for entry on the day, but don't rely on this!
Entry fees: £5 seniors, £2 juniors. Competitors aged under-16 must be accompanied. The fee covers third party liability insurance, a map printed on waterproof paper, and post-run cake!
The course
It’s a one hour score event using the MapRun app:
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Checkpoints 1-10 are worth 10 points.
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Checkpoints 11-20 are worth 20 points.
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Checkpoints 21-30 are worth 30 points.
Score as many points as you can within an hour. If you’re late getting back, there’s a 10 point penalty per minute over.
You'll be issued with a waterproof map, A4, scale 1:10,000, before you start.
Please make sure you’ve installed MapRun6 before the event. If you haven’t used MapRun before, don’t worry – it’s easy to use, and we have full details on getting started.
You should download the course to your phone ideally before coming to the event, as sometimes there is little or no phone signal once there. You can download the course either by finding it in the MapRun6 app in the UK/Gloucestershire/Current Series folder, by scanning this QR code with your MapRun6 phone:
(QR code available prior to event)
or by tapping (MapRun link available prior to event) on your MapRun6 phone.
MapRunG (Garmin watch) users: if you have MapRun6, you do not need the event PIN number to download the course to your watch. This means you can download the course before your arrive at the event, in case there is no phone signal there.
Safety
- The course is partly located in an urban environment necessitating many road crossings, so under 16s must be accompanied.
- In some of the fields there are livestock: take care, and keep to the public rights of way.
- There's one footbridge (marked on the map) with a missing slat - watch out!