# MapRun Course Planning Query
**URL:** https://chat.quantockorienteers.co.uk/t/maprun-course-planning-query/67
**Category:** Planning
**Created:** [17 September 2020 20:49 UTC](https://chat.quantockorienteers.co.uk/t/maprun-course-planning-query/67 "2020-09-17T20:49:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@OsteoDave](https://chat.quantockorienteers.co.uk/u/OsteoDave)
#### Post date: [17 September 2020 20:49 UTC](https://chat.quantockorienteers.co.uk/t/maprun-course-planning-query/67/1 "2020-09-17T20:49:29Z")
Can anyone help me with planning of a maprun activity?
I am trying to replan the Combe Wood courses but I’m struggling to find a route back to the finish for the Hare and Squirrel courses, which have to stay on paths, without them going back on the same route they went out on.
I know I need to plan the courses so the competitors do not accidentally end their run early by going too near the finish (as I did on my very first maprun!) What I need to know is what happens if they get too near the **start** after they have been to a few controls? Does it start them again, or just ignore it?
Thank you for your help.
David
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### Author:  [@alasdair.shaw](https://chat.quantockorienteers.co.uk/u/alasdair.shaw)
#### Post date: [17 September 2020 21:24 UTC](https://chat.quantockorienteers.co.uk/t/maprun-course-planning-query/67/2 "2020-09-17T21:24:26Z")
Pretty sure it ignores it.
Repeated normal controls are registered but ignored in the results. But Finish stops it whenever punched.
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### Author:  [@OsteoDave](https://chat.quantockorienteers.co.uk/u/OsteoDave)
#### Post date: [18 September 2020 09:21 UTC](https://chat.quantockorienteers.co.uk/t/maprun-course-planning-query/67/3 "2020-09-18T09:21:29Z")
Thank you. That helps a lot.
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### Author:  [@JennyW](https://chat.quantockorienteers.co.uk/u/JennyW)
#### Post date: [18 September 2020 10:51 UTC](https://chat.quantockorienteers.co.uk/t/maprun-course-planning-query/67/4 "2020-09-18T10:51:38Z")
That’s a question I was going to ask. Running to the finish on one of my courses, sets off an earlier control, I was hoping that it didn’t matter!
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### Author:  [@alasdair.shaw](https://chat.quantockorienteers.co.uk/u/alasdair.shaw)
#### Post date: [18 September 2020 16:15 UTC](https://chat.quantockorienteers.co.uk/t/maprun-course-planning-query/67/5 "2020-09-18T16:15:28Z")
Yes. On a linear course, it notes but then ignores out if order controls (other than finish).
So running S 1 2 5 3 4 6 F would be DNF but S 1 2 5 3 4 5 6 F would be fine.
On on score course, it notes repeat punches but doesn’t add to the score on second etc visit.
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### Author:  [@OsteoDave](https://chat.quantockorienteers.co.uk/u/OsteoDave)
#### Post date: [18 September 2020 16:37 UTC](https://chat.quantockorienteers.co.uk/t/maprun-course-planning-query/67/6 "2020-09-18T16:37:58Z")
But what about S123S456F
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### Author:  [@craddocktaunton](https://chat.quantockorienteers.co.uk/u/craddocktaunton)
#### Post date: [19 September 2020 06:33 UTC](https://chat.quantockorienteers.co.uk/t/maprun-course-planning-query/67/7 "2020-09-19T06:33:48Z")
I have run back past the start on the LongRun Meadow course when I realized I had missed a control in French Weir Park and that was OK. We would be happy to do a ‘dummy run’ for you at any time if you send Alasdair the map and Courses to set up ‘TestSites’. Simon Beck is happy to update his map in OCAD
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### Author:  [@alasdair.shaw](https://chat.quantockorienteers.co.uk/u/alasdair.shaw)
#### Post date: [27 October 2020 21:31 UTC](https://chat.quantockorienteers.co.uk/t/maprun-course-planning-query/67/8 "2020-10-27T21:31:54Z")
I had no problem going back through the start at the Combe Wood event.
I have also successfully got a pivot control working without that hundred extra punches as it bounces back and forth. Trick is to copy one control rather than creating a new one at the same place.