I’ve had 3 excellent days checking out the bridleways in the stunning scenery around Ingleborough and Whernside. We have got 65 pre-entries and there are still 20 spare maps for any late entries. Hope you take the opportunity to ride through the arches to get to one of the controls!!
Provisional results here Teesdale
Report to follow tomorrow but congratulations to Andy Conn who visited all 30 controls with 3 minutes to spare and thanks to all of the helpers who made this event happen
Results also here http://www.bmbo.org.uk/results/
Thanks to the 4 riders that turned up to enjoy the tracks around Richmond. Hudswell results We were using the spare maps from the event that was cancelled last winter due to the snow. No extra expense for NYMBO and a good excuse to ride my local tracks again to check the controls but very disappointed with the numbers. If they don’t pick up this summer there won’t be a NYMBO summer evening series in 2013.
Our next evening event is on a Tuesday (19th June) at the New Inn, Eccup and it is part of the Bike week so hopefully Neil Reed will get more riders to appreciate his course.
The next NEMBOS event is this Saturday at Grassholme Reservoir near Middleton on Tees. We have got 45 pre-entries and there are 15 spare maps so please email if you want to reserve one.
The next NYMBO league event is at Ingleton on Saturday 2nd June. It is a 5 hour event and part of the OvergroundUnderground weekend so hope to see you there.
Congratulations to Mike Nayler – M50 and overall leader
Thanks to John Dixon for compiling the league
Andrew Windrum has declared himself non-competitive as he saw the map beforehand to plan the MTBO courses. Thanks, Andrew – but I doubt you would have scored many less if you hadn’t seen the map in advance.
Congratulations to Conrad Ellison for winning overall and to all riders who have now scored more points in the league than expected. There have been a few small changes so here are the updated results – as an XL file without splits. Pickering Results
Had we made the course too large and consequently too hard for most people? This was the question Garry Wright and I discussed all morning and most of the afternoon, until the arrival of the first riders (who unbelievably were smiling, or was that a pained expression?).
When we rode the course in March the ground was dry and the tracks fast, but after Friday’s control setting in pouring rain on top of the wettest April on record, we realised that this was going to be a mudbath. The bike wash at the finish dealt with the mud and the comfort of a cafe serving drinks, soup and cakes should have relieved the pain for some of you!
I’m not quite sure how Andrew Windrum managed his score, but it was truly phenomenal. Well done to everyone who took part and a big thank you to those who helped collect the controls at the end of the race.
Can be found here
Congratulations to the category winners especially Andrew Windrum who scored a remarkable 459 points – 73 more than the next rider. The Parker’s beat the Vesty’s for the first time this year and Dave Lloyd won his first event in M60. Jill Furphy was the first female rider and Karen & Steve used their orienteering experience to beat the other mixed teams.
Results, including splits, can be found here
Apologies to anyone who couldn’t find #42. It was on the wrong side of the track so please let me know and I will adjust your score. I have got 4 items of lost property so please let me know if they are yours – a camera, black and white cycling top, lunch box (and gloves from last month).
There are 2 more events this week so please enter online asap or send me an email. We have only got 5 entries for Wednesday and 25 for next Saturday
Hope to see you at another event soon.
Steve
PS I am planning the Polaris is in the Yorkshire Dales on Saturday/Sunday 22nd/23rd September and there will be 5 options – 6&5 hours with overnight camp, 5&4 hours without overnight camp, 4 hours on Saturday or 3 hours on Sunday, 40/20k fixed routes on Saturday and 30/15k fixed routes on Sunday. Plenty of choice for all abilities so why not enter? http://www.polarischallenge.com/
Pickering Forest aka Cropton & Newtondale Forests
We have got 20 entries for the MTBO event on Saturday morning and 100 entries for the Score event in the afternoon which is excellent. There will be a few spare maps for entries on the day as usual – 10 in the morning and 30 in the afternoon. Parking is on the forest road north of Keldy Cabins so please follow the signs and don’t park around the cabins. Registration is in the excellent cafe which will be selling refreshments all day and there is also a bike wash and the Muddybums stall selling sports clothing. Dave Evans has planned an excellent course so let’s hope the forecast is correct and the tracks stay dry. Looking forward to seeing you on Saturday
Dave Evans has planned an excellent Score event for the afternoon with 30 controls spread across Cropton and Newtondale Forests. The event centre is at Keldy Cabins where there is an excellent cafe and bike wash – but parking is on the forest road just north of the log cabins. Andrew Windrum has planned 3 testing courses using Dave Evans controls for the MTBO event in the morning. You are welcome to ride in both events but, if you do, you will have to ride non-competitively in the afternoon. We have only had 25 entries for the Score event and 5 entries for the MTBO event so please can you make sure that you pre-enter by next Tuesday so that we print enough maps for everyone. It is cheaper and easier for us if you enter online but you can post or email your entries if you prefer or just take the chance of getting one of the 30 spare Score maps by entering on the day.
Our first Summer evening score event is on Wednesday 16th May at the George and Dragon at Hudswell so you have the chance to ride around Lower Swaledale before a relaxing drink (and meal) in this pub which keeps cropping up in the Dales programme.
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