Monthly Archives: September 2011

Fountains Abbey – Saturday October 8th

Excellent bridleways and minor roads on the moors north east of Nidderdale and in the valleys of the rivers Skell and Laver
Based on the excellent village hall in Sawley village with adjacent parking on the green, local caterer will be offering food so bring your wallet.
The area generally slopes from west to east and consists of a series of parallel valleys (all around the blooming heather!); competitors will use the minor roads, hard tracks & grassy bridleways that crisscross the area, hills are unavoidable but predominately in the west.
There are even some easier, nearer controls for junior riders.

Prizegiving for the National and NYMBO leagues will take place at 3.30

You can enter the Fountains Abbey Bikeo on the BMBO website by clicking here

The event is in Sawley.

GR 247 678 Sawley Village Hall

Directions to Event Centre:Turn south of the B6265 – 4 miles west of Ripon

Driffield Race Report

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Thanks to the 25 riders who made it to Driffield to ride the intricate muddy tracks in this Army training area made more interesting by man-made hills and quarries. Andy Conn just managed to beat Alan Hartley by 30 seconds on the A course but it was great to see Andrew Windrum back on his bike for the first time since he broke his collar bone. Charlie SC won the B course, the Van Dams were the only riders on the C course and Dave Offey used his local knowledge to good effect on the Score course. The splits are available on the Halo web page so follow this link

Thanks to the volunteers who made this event happen. Helen Smith for planning the footO as I used 28 of her controls for our event; Neil Harvatt for looking after the SI and Brian Slater for printing the maps; Dave Robertson and Mark Emmerson who looked after the start and finish; and Andy Conn and John Rawden who helped me collect the controls in afterwards.

I think we will repeat this format next year using FootO events on Sunday mornings followed by MBO in the afternoon – with possibly an MBO Score the day before.
Steve Willis

You can read Steph Fountain’s race report here

NYMBO Update

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Welcome to the new website – it will be updated regularly over the coming weeks as we change from the previous site.

There’s a new a Facebook page set up by Steph Fountain She is going to keep it up to date with information and results but it’s up to you to make it work so please join in – click the “like” button on the right hand side.

Dalby Forest MBO
Results and comments on the BMBO web site; Splits on the Ebor web site

NYMBO League after 8 events

Men’s and Mixed categories still to be decided with just one event to go. The version on the BMBO site isn’t very clear so the file is here:

NYMBO League after 8 events.xls

Moors Marathon
Results and comments on the BMBO web site

Driffield MBO Sprint event – Sunday 25th September
3 linear and a 40 min Score event
Flier on the BMBO, NYMBO and Halo websites
http://www.halo-orienteering.org.uk/
Please enter online, by replying to this email or turn up on the day and hope there are enough maps!!

Fountains Abbey 4 hour MBO – Saturday 8th October
David Day has planned an excellent course as usual for the final event in the National and North Yorkshire Leagues. Both Prize Presentations will take place immediately after the event at 3.30 in Sawley Village Hall. Hope you can make it.
Flier can be found by clicking here

Winter MBO Series
There will be 4 events again on Saturday mornings starting in November. No dates, venues or planners decided yet so please let me know if you want to volunteer

NYMBO League 2012
There will be 9 events again starting in March but, again, no dates, venues or planners decided yet -except for August Bank Holiday – so please let me know if you want to volunteer.

Sport Ident
Dave & Sue Relton have been running our SI system for the last 9 years but Fountains Abbey will be their last event. They have decided to get their bikes out of the garage and take part next year!! So a huge thank you to them and if anyone has basic computer skills and would like to volunteer to help at registration or download I would be very garteful to hear from you. Usual rate of pay – free entry to each event!!

Hope to see you at another event soon.
Steve Willis

PS Please let me know if you want your details removing from the mailing list

NYMBO League after 8 events.xls

Welcome to NYMBO

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NYMBO is the North Yorkshire Mountain Bike Orienteering Club who organise at least one event in the county every month. At each event the challenge is to visit as many of the 30 control points in the event area within the time limit – which varies from 3 to 5 hours – using a pre-marked map.