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01/02/2023 Evening MapRun – Abbeydale 2023

01/02/2023 Evening MapRun – Abbeydale 2023
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01/02/2023 - Abbeydale 2023

Following the postponement of our Ross 2023 race, we now kick off the 2023 MapRun season, and our new MapRun League, with a return to Abbeydale, one of our very first MapRun venues. Along with various other local events we have typically used Abbeydale Sports and Social Club as a base, but this time we will be based at the Redwell Centre in neighbouring Matson, as a change from the perhaps over-familiar Abbeydale venue. We are grateful to Redwell for allowing us to park there for this race.

Enter on Fabian4.co.uk by midnight on Tuesday 31st January Enter Online

 

Officials

Organiser: Pat Macleod Queries? email Pat Macleod

Directions and Parking

Parkng is in the Redwell Centre car park, off Redwell Road, Matson. The centre is not the easiest place to find, especially in the dark, so allow yourselves plenty of time to get there. Parking space is a bit limited, but you can park on the road outside the centre if necessary.

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Grid Reference: SO852150

The postcode is GL4 6JG, and that should take you direct to the Centre.

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

The Area

Typical fairly modern suburbia, so very well populated with footpaths, green spaces, and quiet residential roads. Many controls are located on the footpath network. The venue is at the bottom of the course map, with Matson in the immediate vicinity, an area of older and less 'well off' residential housing, and Abbeydale, Abbeymead and even Upton St Leonards all coming into play, where a full house might just be possible for the very fleet of foot, with careful route planning. Almost all paths should be well lit, though one or two do pass through small stretches of woodland. Most of the mapped open land is crossable from, to and between footpaths and roads, though not, as might be expected, from or through white areas.

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 Tuesday 31 January. A few extra maps will be available for entry on the day, but don't rely on this!


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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!

We may or may not be able to take card payments, so bring cash if planning to enter on the day.

The course

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

  • 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 or 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. Note that MapRun is now the current version(V7), although MapRun6 still works fine. We'd like to encourage people to move to MapRun from MapRun6, which you can do by simply downloading just MapRun, not MapRun6, from your store. The two versions co-exist quite happily on phones. Eventually the 6 version will disappear, and we return to just MapRun, as was the case when it first appeared about 5 years ago now.

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. Abbeydale course QR CodeYou can use this QR code to download it, you can click this link on your MapRun phone, or simply open the App, Select Event, and navigate to UK/Gloucestershire/Current Series to download it from there.

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.

Safety

    Reflective clothing and a headtorch are essential.
  • The course crosses a number of significant thrugh routes in the town, so take particular care when crossing these.
  • Under 16s must be accompanied.
  • A First Aid kit will be available at registration

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