Summer Series 10: Wolvercote MapRun

Summer Series

31st July 2024

Location

The White Hart, Wolvercote
Nearest Postcode
OX2 8PQ
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UPDATE: It is currently forecast to be around 28 degrees Celsius at the time of the event. These are warm weather conditions and suitable caution should be shown. Plan your routes accordingly and consider carrying liquids.

To ensure map availability please REGISTER, ideally by Sunday evening before the event! Note the event is on a Wednesday rather than the usual Tuesday as there are no Tuesday food options in Wolvercote.

Event cost £3, cash only.

The Event: A MapRun 1 hour score event starting from Wolvercote. The usual rules apply: Controls 10-19 score 10, controls 20-29 score 20, and controls 30-39 score 30. 20 point penalty for each minute or part minute you are over the hour. You may complete as many or as few controls as you want. Controls may be attempted in any order. Controls are predominately placed on lampposts, trees, telephone poles and path junctions.

The event will use the MapRun app. This is available on phone, as well as Apple and Garmin watches. It’s advised to have this downloaded in advance of the event. The event is available to downloaded, but is protected by a PIN which you will be given at the event. In MapRun, go to Thames Valley/TVSS and the event name starts Wolvercote24.

The event will be hosted from the White Hart.  The organiser, Paul, will be in the marquee or beer garden to the rear of the pub, which can be accessed by walking down the left hand side of the pub. The pub has asked for an indication of potential numbers for food, and if possible what people would like. Please indicate on the spreadsheet is you might be having food.

Start between 6:30 and 7:30 pm. Food until 9:00 pm.

What to bring: Yourself, in suitable clothing and footwear. A phone with plenty of charge. A Garmin/Apple watch if you own one. A compass (not essential).

Area: The area encompasses Wolvercote, the north end of Port Meadow, Sunnymead, and Cutteslowe.  The majority of running will be tarmacked roads or paths, with some grassy paths on Port Meadow and within Cutteslowe Park. The course crosses the A40, a very busy road. There are four mandatory crossing points indicated on the map: 2 pedestrian crossings, 1 underpass and 1 bridge.

Map: 1:10,000 paper street-o map. Solid and dashed black lines show roads and paths respectively. Purple cross-hatch is out of bounds. A solid purple line is an impassable feature. Orange indicates grassy terrain that can be run across. Green indicates vegetation that is assumed impassable. Blue is water.

Due to it being an urban event, participants must be aged 16 or over.

What to expect on the course: As this event uses the MapRun app, there is no physical orienteering infrastructure out on the course. Controls are set virtually, and your phone/watch will register when you have got within a certain number of metres of the specified control site. It is important to not run through the finish control until you want to finish your race, as doing so will finish your race. The finish will be located in a place which makes this very unlikely.

Directions / Parking

Parking: Park for free at Godstow Car Park.

Public transport: Wolvercote is served by ST2 and number 6 bus. The number 6 is the more frequent, being every 15 minutes from Oxford City Centre. The ST2 originates in Headington.

Officials

Organiser: Paul Eaton, TVOC    email organiser