In the terrain, the sports director distributes posts in advance, which the participants then run to individually or in small groups during the petrol station run. For this purpose, a poster with all the marked posts is put up at the start and at some posts. After the start, each participant uses the "petrol stations" to find out where the posts are located. The petrol station run can be carried out both as a practice run and as a competition. It is worth staggering both variants so that each participant/group has to work independently and cannot simply follow a forerunner/group (note the time intervals/difference to the first start time on the running map for the evaluation). The control overview with the running map can either be handed out together with the start signal or distributed to the runners/groups a certain time before the start. For the petrol station run, each participant/group has a defined amount of time to find as many or all of the controls as possible.
