GPS Watch
With this option all you need is a GPS Watch or a device/App that performs a similar function.
GPS Watches are widely available and relatively inexpensive - examples are the Garmin range, or the Sunto range.
Alternatively, if you have a Smartphone, you can use an App that performs the function of a GPS watch. For example, Strava or Endomondo.
So here's what you do:
- Choose a map/course that suits you from the events listed on this site
- Print the map on your printer (black and white is fine, colour is even better)
- If you are competitive, you can checkout the results online of others who have already run
- Choose a time to run that suits you (or you and your friends)
- Run the course - following the course/map and recording your time/track with the GPS watch/App
- Check that your watch has locked onto satellites, then use your GPS watch like a stop watch - that is, press Start at the start location and Stop when to reach the finish
- Note that you will not get any indication when you arrive at a required location - but these locations are distinct features, are not hidden and not difficult to identify.
GPS Watches are widely available and relatively inexpensive - examples are the Garmin range, or the Sunto range.
Alternatively, if you have a Smartphone, you can use an App that performs the function of a GPS watch. For example, Strava or Endomondo.
So here's what you do:
- Choose a map/course that suits you from the events listed on this site
- Print the map on your printer (black and white is fine, colour is even better)
- If you are competitive, you can checkout the results online of others who have already run
- Choose a time to run that suits you (or you and your friends)
- Run the course - following the course/map and recording your time/track with the GPS watch/App
- Check that your watch has locked onto satellites, then use your GPS watch like a stop watch - that is, press Start at the start location and Stop when to reach the finish
- Note that you will not get any indication when you arrive at a required location - but these locations are distinct features, are not hidden and not difficult to identify.
