The Challenge has been met! 28 people took part in the Challenge, which involved running different MapRun courses across Gloucester and beyond; seven did enough to earn a coveted chocolate prize. We were surprised at the dedication of a few runners, who managed two, or even three, runs back to Read more…
There are only 4 days left to complete your maprun Christmas Challenge. Lots of people are on 5 or 6 runs, so still time left to make the target of 8 runs, still several courses that haven’t been run in this year’s challenge, and still time to collect a few Read more…
Now that we have over 30 MapRun courses spread over Gloucestershire and surroundings, we thought it was time for a Christmas Challenge: run as many courses as you can over the holidays, and win chocolate-based rewards! The challenge Run at as many different “Gloucestershire” MapRuns as you can, over the Read more…
Welcome to our refreshed Maprun Gloucestershire website. There is still a lot of checking and finishing off to be done, so don’t be surprised if links etc break, but we will keep working on it and hopefully we’ll have done all of the checking in the next couple of days. (more…)
A lot of people couldn’t make it to the Gloucester South event with the gridlock around Gloucester on the day – but don’t worry, because the course is now available to do any time you like. You can find details, and a printable map, on the course page.
The winter maprun series got underway this evening in Ross on Wye: a course which everyone seemed to enjoy, with lots of tricky route options. The biggest question was whether to focus on checkpoints to the North or the South: one was a significantly better option! Thanks to Richard Cronin Read more…
Thanks to Tom Birthwright for planning last night’s event in Oakley and Prestbury. That’s the end of our summer series, but the winter series starts in a couple of weeks. It was a fun course, with a lot of decisions to make about which checkpoints were worth visiting. And the Read more…
A completely new version of maprun has just been released, and is available to download now for Android and iOS. The new version has a host of new facilities, but still does all the basics that we are now very used to. It also co-exists with the current version, and Read more…
Thanks to Pat Macleod for organising last night’s event in Bream and Whitecroft. It was a great mix of village streets and forest paths, with the possibility of some nice shortcuts through the forest. A different event is up next: Oakley and Prestbury, in Cheltenham, on 19 September.
We’re holding our next event tomorrow, in the Forest of Dean villages of Bream & Whitecroft and their surrounding footpaths. Should be a good evening for running, so hope to see lots of you there!