Wednesday 18/12/2024 - Ebley 2024
For the last Maprun before Christmas, we return to the Stroud area, this time to the western suburbs around Ebley. Minced pies and mulled wine will be on offer.
Ebley has a rich industrial heritage with its wharf, its impressive former woollen mill, the Stroudwater Canal, towpath and bridges. Recently, the area has been sympathetically redeveloped and the canal is again navigable. This makes it an interesting area to explore and the course will include all of this and also venture up the hill into the neighbouring Cashes Green suburb with its extensive path network.
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 open now and will close at midnight on Tuesday 17th December.
Officials
Greg Best Queries? email Greg
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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 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 Tuesday 17th December. 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!
The course
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
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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 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 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.