LOC Summer Series using MapRunF

Last updated: Fri 29 Apr 2022

While waiting for traditional orienteering events to resume LOC is offering a series of events over the summer using the MapRun app. Courses are free and all abilities of orienteer will be able to participate. Participants can run or walk the courses at a time that suits them. They will need to have a smartphone, have downloaded the MapRunF app and will have to have the facility to print off a PDF map unless they wish to follow the map on their phone (which can be tricky especially in poor weather).

See the LOC MapRunF User Guide for further advice on downloading and using MapRunF.

Start Block	Area	Suggested Parking	Start	GPS Accuracy	Score	Terrain Details	Results
1 - 7 Aug	Cunswick Scar Score 45	Cunswick Scar Car Park SD48969241	200m	Very Good	45 Min	Fast Open Fell	Results
8 - 14 Aug	Roanhead	NT Car Park SD20057555 (small and popular)	250m	Few metres out	60 Min	Sand Dunes with paths and fences	Results
15 - 21 Aug	The Helm 45	Track south of Station Inn SD53488994	100m	Few metres out	45 Min	Fast Open Fell and path network over The Helm	Results
22 - 28 Aug	Haverigg	Millom Rugby Club SD15357832	200m	Few metres out	45 Min	Sand Dunes with paths and fences	Results
29 - 4 Sept	Birkrigg	North SD28047462	200m	Few metres out	45 Min	Fast Open Fell	Results
5 - 11 Sept	Stickle Pike	SD21449327 Kiln Bank Cross	200m	Few metres out	60 Min	Fast Open Fell	Results

Course Information

Each course will be a score of duration 45 minutes or 60 minutes, depending on the area.
There are no markers of any description at the control sites.
Anyone wishing to participate in the Summer Series Challenge will need to complete the course within the designated start block (7 days).
The recorded time for the first run on the course within the designated start block will be counted as part of the Challenge.
It is recommended that a printed copy of the map is used.
If you have data switched on, your results will be automatically uploaded in the app after the course is finished. If not, you can upload your results when you have a wifi connection.
An extra column, GPS Accuracy, gives an indication of how close the signals should be to the controls. Cunswick Scar is Lidar mapped and accurate. The Helm is an older map, and the accuracy may be 5m out.

ENTRY DETAILS

Courses are free.
A copy of the map and the PIN code for activating the course can be obtained from the day prior to the start date from Jerry Purkis jerry56p@gmail.com

CHALLENGE RESULTS

This is an informal challenge. At the end of the series the highest scoring Senior M/W, Veteran M/W and Junior M/W will be publicised on the LOC website. There will not be any prizes, just the satisfaction of being a winner.

Best 4 out of 6 results will count.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thanks to all those members who have used lockdown so productively to increase their knowledge about alternative orienteering courses and the use of MapRunF.

Jerry Purkis has taken on the role of Virtual Orienteering Course manager for the club.

Dick Towler has been administrating MapRunF courses

The following people have planned the courses for the Summer Series.

Jerry Purkis, Derek Fryer, Loz Colyer, Gill Browne Richard Tiley and Andy Robinson.

THANK YOU!