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Thursday 24/04/2025 – Evening MapRun – Thornbury 2025

Thursday 24/04/2025 – Evening MapRun – Thornbury 2025
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Thursday 24th April 2025 -Thornbury

We head South after our Prestbury run, to Thornbury, for our first race there for several years. many thanks to Carolyn Dent from BOK for planning this one. Once again this will be a largely urban race, and with lighter evenings torches probably not required.

NOTE to all MAPRUNNERS. You must be using MapRun v7 to run this course. It is just called MapRun. If you have MapRun6 or MapRunF please remove them and install just plain Maprun.

Entries are now open and will close at midnight on Wednesday 23rd April . Enter Online

 

Officials

Planner/Organiser: Carolyn Dent Queries? email Carolyn

Directions and Parking

Parking is in Rock Stree car park, which is free. The start is at the car park entrance, so it's best to park some way away from there. We will be based towards the Eastern (downhill) edge of the car park so look for us there.

What Three Words: ///submerge.preheated.senders

Grid Ref: ST638899

The Start is at the car park entrance, and the Finish is at the Eastern (bottom) end of the first parking row.

The toilet block in the car park is currently closed, and likely to be so on the day, so don't rely on using it.

Click on the parking icon on the map below, and then the Direction icon icon to get directions to the course.

The Area

Typical urban sprawl, but with plenty of newer estates with good route choices and plenty of variety.

Timing and Fees

Starts from 18:00 to 18:30. If you think you'll struggle to make that start window, email the organiser to let her 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 23rd April. 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, plus £1 for unaffiliated (to British Orienteering) runners, £2 juniors (no added fee for unaffiliated 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.

The Start and Finish are located in the Rock Street car park.

  • 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.

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) and MapRunA (Apple) users: 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

Under 16s must be accompanied at all times.

Most of the course is on paths and relatively quiet suburban roads but there are one or two busier roads through the area, where greater care will be needed when crossing. You can also expect to meet pedestrians and should take care in particular when turning corners or emerging from alleyways etc.

A head torch shopuld not be necessary, but bright coloured clothing is recommended.

A first aid kit will be available at registration.

Orienteering is an adventure sport, and you are responsible for your own safety.