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Fingal orienteers welcome you to Skerries on Tuesday 21st July for a summer \'Come and Try It\' event.

This will be a pre entry event only, no money will be taken on the day of the event. The event will observe social distancing. This will no registration tent. Contact will be at a minimum with supervision and support at the start and finish. Printed maps will be provided. There will be flags at the control sites and timing will be by a GPS app, MapRunF, on your phone. Controls descriptions will be on the map only.

Online entry via Fabian4, http://www.fabian4.co.uk/default.aspx?EventID=2641

Important: To take part in this event each competitor will require the “MapRunF” app running on their smart phone, download from the App store or Google play.

Check out this MapRunF video for more information. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMseXJZEk_8&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1O-jFKeaYP_IGDqp1GgHnM2rmHtQU9pnuI4c3Vzll6PPFKPSKFmZNx2VE

Parking and Start will be located at Skerries Mills, Skerries, Co. Dublin.
Skerries Mills is well sign posted by Fingal County Council Brown Heritage Signs.
There are bus and train services to Skerries to within a short distance of the start.

Start times: 6:00 to 8:00pm

Courses close: 9:00pm

Organisers: Ciaran and Eileen Young
Planner: Eileen Young

Courses:
Short ~2km
Medium ~ 4km
Long ~ 6km
(These are estimated straight-line distances; the medium and long, in particular, are likely to be longer on the ground)

Entry fees via Fabian4:
Children/Students/OAP/Unwaged – €4
Adults – €7
Family – €15 (2 adults kids)

No entries on the day, all pre entry

Toilets and drinking water will not be provided.  

Participants will be sent a Health Questionnaire which must be answered before attending the event. Everyone attending the event will need to fill in a Health Questionnaire including non runners, shadowing adults and small children. We request that participants familiarise themselves Return to Orienteering \"Participant Code of Conduct\" https://www.orienteering.ie/about-us/covid-19-return-to-orienteering/

Looking forward to seeing everyone!

Entries close at Midnight Monday 20th July for the Skerries event.

The courses will be available on MapRunF from Tuesday morning and can be downloaded onto your phone/watch before attending the event. The courses can also be downloaded at the start once you have data available. To find the courses \"Select Event\" \"Ireland\" \"Dublin\" then select the Skerries course you would like to run. The courses are not visible on the phone until close to start time or you have a pin.

Control Description will be posted on the forum before the event and will also be on the map.

If you need any additional support on MapRunF contact Fingal Orienteers at fingalorienteers@gmail.com or on facebook

Control descriptions for the event are at http://fingal.orienteering.ie/skerriesdescs.pdf
Click to open the pdf and print it.

Results for Skerries are now posted.

To see RouteGadget/Tracks you must visit the Maprunner page here http://www.p.fne.com.au/rg/cgi-bin/SelectResultFileForSplitsBrowserFiltered.cgi?HideCombinedResults=yes

Type \"Skerries\" into the filter
Then select the course you are interested in
Once the results are up select one track and then you will be into the RouteGadget console and can compare routes and runner.