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Wednesday 20/08/2025 – Evening MapRun – Tintern 2025

Wednesday 20/08/2025 – Evening MapRun – Tintern 2025
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Wednesday 20th August 2025 - Tintern

We are back in the Wye Valley for this cross-border event. Starting in Tintern the map extends up the valley to Brockweir, providing an option for a low-level loop between the two villages on either side of the Wye. Some further loops and modest climbs up the valley sides can be added. Shorter route options are available in Tintern and the Angiddy Valley. Taking account of this linear format, the event time has been extended to 70 minutes and the map scale reduced to 1:12,500.

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 now open and will close at midnight on Tuesday 19th August . Enter Online

 

Officials

Planner/Organiser: Andy Stott Queries? email Andy

Directions and Parking

Parking is in the Wireworks Car Park, Forge Road, Tintern. This is a small car park about 300m up the minor road to Usk and Raglan, turning west off the A466 beside the newly refurbished Royal George Hotel. It is a small car park so please share cars as much as possible. When this is full, nearby roadside parking is available but avoid obstructing the fairly narrow roadway and runners.

What Three Words: ///circulate.petrified.exhale

Grid Ref: SO526001

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

The Area

As mentioned above the area includes the small historic villages and scattered dwellings of Tintern and Brockweir, set within meadows and woods in the Wye Valley National Landscape. Routes are mainly on footpaths, tracks and minor roads, but also include narrow pavements and crossings of the busy A466. Within Tintern village the A466 has a 20 mph speed restriction but nevertheless great care must be taken when crossing the road. Runners must use the pavements where available when running alongside the road. Please also be careful and courteous of other pedestrians.

Routes along the valley bottom can be chosen but there are also options to venture into the woods and maze of ancient footpaths on the lower slopes of the valleys. Some of the footpaths are rough and rocky but mostly very dry at the moment. Brambles, nettles and bracken may be encountered. Paths with heavy undergrowth are overprinted on the map with an ‘o’ and these would be best avoided.

Some areas of private land without permissive access have been marked on the map as out of bounds where there may appear to offer possible route choices. Competitors using these out of bounds areas risk disqualification.

Timing and Fees

Starts from 18:15 to 18:45. Note the start window is 15 mins earlier than usual allowing extra running time but still with some extra travel time. You may be able to start a bit earlier if the organiser is there and the maps have arrived (normally well in time for the start window!)

To guarantee a map, you will need to pre-enter via Fabian4: entries are now open, and will stay open until midnight on Tuesday 19th August. 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.


Enter Online

Entry fees: £5 seniors, plus £1 for unaffiliated (to British Orienteering) runners, £2 juniors (no added fee for unaffiliated 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

This is a 70 minute score event using the MapRun app. Note that time has been extended by 10 minutes to provide some additional time, taking account of the more extended, linear nature of the area.

The Start and Finish are adjacent to parking.

  • 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 in 70 minutes. 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 1:12,500, 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) and MapRunA (Apple) users: 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

Under 16s must be accompanied by adults as the routes will use and cross the busy A466 and other minor roads. Great caution must be taken when crossing roads and when passing road junctions and drives where vehicles may be joining the carriageway. The A466 should only be crossed within the village of Tintern where there is a 20 mph speed limit.

A first aid kit will be available at registration.

Orienteering is an adventure sport, and you are responsible for your own safety.