Hi all

Event 6 of MDOC's 9th NSL series will take place in Withington / West Didsbury on Thursday 30th January 2020.  

The venue will be  The GreenFinch, Palatine Rd / Lapwing Lane, West Didsbury, M20 3ZA.

Parking
The pub has a large car park (entrance via Lapwing Lane). If it is full, check out the grid of streets to the North of Lapwing Lane / East of Palatine Road, but please do not block residents’ access.
Food
A menu can be found at: https://www.greenfinchpubdidsbury.co.uk/menus/ The kitchen closes at 21:00; please order before then, preferably before your run indicating your expected return time.

The event has been planned as a MapRun event, using an App (MapRun) and the GPS capabilities of your smartphone to track your route and record the controls visited. Many of you are already familiar with this - it was enthusiastically received at the cup final in Urmston last season, and earlier this sesason  at event 2 in Heaviley. 

Planner Doug Edwards has provided a comprehensive MapRun information sheet which is attached to this email as a pdf. Please read it carefully BEFORE arriving at the event!  

We would encourage everyone to have a go, but if you can’t, or don’t want to, use your phone to record controls, that’s fine, it will work just like any other NSL event – with map, clue sheet and hand-written answers. EVERYBODY will need a dibber for Start/Finish timing, and EVERYBODY will carry a paper map and clue sheet and should have a pencil to hand. For those using the App, the answer sheet provides a backup for any controls which fail to register - you don't need to write anything for those which do!

Help and advice will be available on the night, and there will also be a "test / demo" course for you to try; in the meantime, if you have any queries, please contact me via the usual email address(es).