Discussion: Rochester Map Adventure -- May 4

The 2nd annual Rochester Map Adventure is only 9 days away! The date of the event is Saturday, May 4, with a mass start at 11:00 am (registration opens at 10:00 am). The start location is the South Avenue Community Center, at 999 South Avenue, Rochester (in the Highland Park area).

This year's event covers a somewhat different area than last year's (but with a lot of overlap). It will the South Wedge, Cobbs Hill Park, Highland Park, Mt. Hope Cemetery, University of Rochester, Corn Hill, Downtown, the Park/East Avenue area, and the Neighborhood of the Arts.

This event has a total of 82 control points.

There's something for everyone in this event. For someone who is a serious runner or biker and wants to be challenged to cover a lot of ground in a quest to visit all of the controls, our estimate is that it would involve covering approximately 28 miles to do so.

But someone who isn't interested in covering mega miles will have a lot of controls accessible also -- within a 1-mile radius of the starting location, there are 43 of the 82 controls.

Here is a flyer that gives basic information about the meet, including how to pre-register: Rochester Map Adventure Flyer

Here are the course notes for the meet, giving more detail about the event than the flyer gives: Course Notes

Pre-registration is STRONGLY encouraged. It helps us make sure we have enough maps and food, and it saves the registrant $5 per person compared to registering the day of the meet.

82! Holy smokes! That's amazing!

Looking forward to it!

I love the way you are presenting the event.
But you got permission to have an event go through a cemetery? Running and biking?

We did need to get special permission for the cemetery. But people run there all the time, so our use of it wasn't really out of line with how people use the cemetery every day. We did have to pick control points that were very close to the roads going through the cemetery to appease them, which eliminated a couple of control points the cemetery course setter (Rick Lavine) would have liked to have used.

The meet is now only 5 days away. We've updated and significantly enhanced the course notes, adding map notes and a sample of what the map will look like, along with some other information.

Updated course notes

Deadline for pre-registering is this Wednesday, May 1, at 10:59 pm EDT.

If you miss the deadline but then decide to attend, if you e-mail me with your intentions, I'll make sure that a map packet is printed and set aside for you.

The flyer gives information on entry fees and how to pre-register:
Rochester Map Adventure Flyer