This November I ran Quid Games II: Storm the Castle in Kendal, an event in partnership between British Orienteering and SportsShoes (British Orienteering members get 15% off). It was part race, part festival showpiece...
Derby Night MapRuns – Autumn 2025
Results
We have many events scheduled for our Spring series 2026! Find our next events here.
**Click here to see courses from 2025 with printable maps here**
A big thank you to Sport England and the Orienteering Foundation for providing funding to make these events possible and for Maprun developers for providing such an amazing free App.
Here are just a few of the highlights:
Our first event in Wirksworth was a great start to the series with many new faces. Everyone made light work of the navigation and hills. Well done!
We had an amazing second event starting from probably the best pub in Derby North. Derby’s West End certainly provided a navigational challenge – thanks John for planning the course.
Next to Mickleover for our largest number of participants so far (52). Quite a navigational challenge on a fast and flat area – what a beautiful evening for a run.
The twilight series closed with a maprun around Oakwood. A big thank you to Mike for course setting and a massive well done to our runners!
We were certainly into headtorch territory in Ripley. A big welcome to runners from Ripley RC, Jog Duffield and many thanks to Simon for planning.
Onwards to hilly Belper! Not to be outdone by the cold we had a great turnout on a lovely fresh night. Thanks Dave for marshaling and planning our courses.
Barmy temperatures in Chellaston – very warm for the time of year. Thank you to Chris for planning such an interesting course that had many scratching their heads.
Our final maprun in this series was Mackworth. The Christmas twist was to find our Christmas mascot. Well done to those who spotted the tinsel cactus!
New dates for 2026 on our events page! Come along and see what we are about.
**Our members blog with links to previous series is here**
Missed any of the events this or last calendar year? The benefit of these smartphone-based events is that all courses will remain open 24/7 and can be used as part of your own training schedule. You can rerun courses that you have enjoyed. Do drop us a line if you complete one of our courses!
2023/24
- 20/21 Sept – Week 1 Darley Park
- 28th Sept – Week 2 Derby North
- 5th Oct – Week 3 Mickleover
- 12th Oct – Week 4 Chester Green
- 16th Nov– Week 5 Chaddesden Park
- 23rd Nov – Week 6 Allestree Park
- 30th Nov – Week 7 Alvaston Park
- 7th Dec – Week 8 Markeaton Park
- Break
- 18 Jan – Week 1 Heanor
- 25 Jan – Week 2 Oakwood
- 01 Feb – Week 3 Belper
- 05 Feb – Week 4 Spondon
- 29 Feb – Week 5 Littleover
- 07 Mar – Week 6 Duffield
- 14 Mar – Week 7 Heatherton
- 21 Mar – Week 8 Mackworth
- 18 April – Week 9 Markeaton Park
- 25 April – Week 10 Chester Green
2024/25
- 19 Sept – Week 1 Chaddesden
- 26 Sept – Week 2 Derby North
- 03 Oct – Week 3 Whitemoor
- 14 Oct – Week 4 Spondon
- 14 Nov – Week 5 Oakwood
- 21 Nov – Week 6 Hackwood
- 28 Nov – Week 7 Ilkeston
- 05 Dec – Week 8 Allestree
- Break
- 16 Jan – Week 1 Heanor
- 23 Jan – Week 2 Mickleover
- 30 Jan – Week 3 Breadsall Hilltop
- 06 Feb – Week 4 Ripley
- 27 Feb – Week 5 Belper
- 06 Mar – Week 6 Mackworth
- 13 Mar – Week 7 Heatherton
- 20 Mar – Week 8 Alvaston
- 24 Apr – Week 9 Ockbrook
- 28 Apr – Week 10 Spondon
