Thursday 9th October 2025 - Robinswood
Roobinswood is a gem of a location close to the heart of Gloucester - although like The Dowards a couple of weeks ago, somewhat hilly - in fact just one distinctive conical hill dominating the Gloucester skyline. It's a Country Park managed by the City Council, and the home of Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust. We are grateful to the Council for giving us permission to run there.
The hill is partly wooded, with patches of open ground scattered amongst the woods, and a golf course occupying much of the Eastern slopes, and there is a mass of footpaths across most of the non-golfing parts of the hill. So plenty of scope for picking the wrong one. There are a few public paths across the golf course. Please keep to these, and unless in the woods on the other parts of the hill, assume that ground mapped as open is not accessible for us; keep to the paths anywhere around the golf course, and also the ski centre adjacent to it. We are using a 1:7,500 scale map for this course so a compact area but with plenty of climb, so still a challenge to get maximum points.
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 Wednesday 8th October .
Officials
Organiser: John Miklausic Queries? email John
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Timing and Fees
Starts from 17:30 to 18:30. As evenings are starting to draw in a little, we will allow starts from 17:30, and suggest you try and come early to get the benefit of daylight; it will get rather dark in the woods fairly early on, so a head torch is a good idea.
To guarantee a map, you will need to pre-enter via Fabian4: entries are open, and will stay open until midnight on Wednesday 8th October. 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, 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 60 minute score event using the MapRun app.
The Start and Finish are adjacent to parking.
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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 in 60 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 1:7,500, 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.