05/09/2024 – Evening MapRun – Berry Hill 2024

Berry Hill is a largely detached suburb of Coleford, and is adjacent to Christchurch, with its large Forest Holidays Glamping site. It is a mix of older housing which has been developed piecemeal, with a variety of semi-rural lanes and byeways, and some very recent and ongoing development on the edge of the older stuff. The woods to East and West of the built up area are typical Forest of Dean blocks, mainly hardwood, with an excellent path network.

The new Ridgeway Avenue building site is half complete, and is accessible where the houses are already occupied. However, you must not enter or attempt to cross those areas still under construction, and bounded by Heras fencing.

Starts from 18:00 to 18:30. If you think you'll struggle to make that start window, email the organiser to let him know, and we can extend starts a bit.

To guarantee a map, you will need to pre-enter via Fabian4: entries are now open, and will stay open until midnight on Wednesday 4th September. A few extra maps will be available for entry on the day, but don't rely on this, and ideally bring cash, although we do now have an available card reader.

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!

It’s a one hour score event using the MapRun app:

The Start and Finish are located in the same place at the car park entrance

• Checkpoints 1-10 are worth 10 points.

• Checkpoints 11-20 are worth 20 points.

• 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 MapRun before the event. If installing MapRun for the first time, select the MapRun app from your app store, and not MapRunF or MapRun6. MapRun, which is in practise Maprun v7, is now the standard app. 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.

Links to enable download will appear here when the course is published, a week or two before the day.

You can download the course by scanning this QR code

 or by tapping this link on your MapRun phone, or by using the Select Event button in MapRun and navigating to the UK/Gloucestershire/Current Series folder.

MapRunG (Garmin watch) users: if you have MapRun6 or later, 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.

Due to the fact the area includes roads juniors under 16s must be accompanied for insurance reasons. There are various fairly busy roads crossing the event area, so you should take particular care when crossing these. There are pavements available throughout most of the built up area.

Please be mindful of users in the area, in particular when running in, entering or emerging from narrow lanes and alleyways.

Orienteering is an adventure sport. All runners take part at their own risk and are responsible for their own safety.

Although all legal Covid restrictions have ceased, you should NOT attend if you are Covid positive, or suspect you are.