Looking to spice up your weekly run in Richmond/Gunnersbury/Wimbledon?
South London Orienteers has introduced a series of runs with a bit of basic map reading to help you to refresh old runs with only your mobile phone with app required. You can print off maps if you prefer but work off a phone if you have a big enough screen.
Information on the app (MapRunF) and courses in Wimbledon and Gunnersbury can be found here: https://slow.org.uk/about/poc/ More information about Richmond Park is set out below.
Please send Duncan Grassie an email Duncan.Grassie@gmail.com if you are keen and want help getting set up!
Richmond Park
The course can be found on the MapRunF app; it's called "Richmond Park May20" and the code is 3472.
Some details about this course setup:
- It's a linear course as before with 16 controls. Because it's a bit long at almost 10km, I've set it up as a score event in the system, where you get 20 points per control visited and you have unlimited time to visit them (well technically, 999 minutes!)
- This means you'll get a result however many controls you visit, although runners will be ranked by controls visited first and time second. Don't forget to return to the place where you started to finish your run!
- As before, you can start / finish at any control, in which case you don't get any points for that control but the 'official' start/finish becomes a counting control. So you can get a maximum of 16 x 20 points wherever you start.
Some details about the course itself:
- The controls have all been selected to be 'vegetation-proof', so fingers crossed this course will be good to go all summer
- It is possible to run close to the straight line between controls in most places, so I'd encourage you to try that rather than going the long way around on the paths!
- There is more bracken than marked on the map, particularly in the 'white' forest areas but also on some open areas. All the pieces of 'white' forest with controls inside are of course accessible!
- Please use the paper map (click on link ) for navigation, not the map loaded into the App
- The map scale is 1:12.500 and it should print nicely onto A4 portrait