*updated* Finalised results can be found here 20220618-fearby_final

Thanks to David Day for planning last saturday’s event, his report is below along with the control map.

Provisional results are here – please report any issues no later than Friday 24th please – 20220618-fearby_prov

There were 45 riders on a glorious day with fantastic views across North Yorkshire [the Black swan pub garden famously claims to have the longest view from any English beer garden – Ferrybridge power station is visible. We were last at Fearby in 2009 & I used a similar area this year.

I tried to have the pre-start far enough away from the actual start so that riders’ time did not start until they were closer to the start triangle. This mostly worked but there were a handful of devices that triggered at the pre-start so next time it needs to be even further from the start.

Most riders used phones [just 4 watches] with a few problems of phones going to sleep or losing signal. 3 tracks are missing from MapRun results, we are trying to get riders to upload these. Several riders had trouble locating #12; I am happy that the map is correct & the location on Google Earth is correct but accept that there is a multitude of tracks in the area & should have chosen a more identifiable spot for the control which was a henge [earthwork]/BW. Competitors who had difficulty in finding the control were all too far N but we have allowed any who visited Nutwith Common the 15 points. It is possible to widen the MapRun search area for this [or any] control by altering the tolerance: 3 horizontal lines in top RH corner of phone screen give options to widen the search.

There was a farm access road W of #16 which was not mapped & caused confusion, the next map will show this road.

MapRun penalties only work up to 5 mins late, so have been manually adjusted for those that exceeded this, giving nett scores of:   1st = David Lawrance M40 375 points, 2nd Nuno Cerqueira M21 361, 3rd Paul Dobson M60 325, all these riders went W then anticlockwise missing out the NW corner. M50 was won by Mark Rowley 324; M70 Steve Willis 304.

1st Lady = Sheila Pearce W50 280 points, 2nd Angela Brand-Barker W60 255; 1st Mixed Andrea & Steve Foster 244; Gen = Mark & Tom Simpson 150.

18 June 2022 – Control map

Next event is at Fearby on June 18th taking in the moors west of Masham

Registration: 0900 – 1015
Starts: 0930 – 1030

Venue: Fearby Village Hall HG4 4NF, GR SE 190 808

Parking for ~ 40 cars at rear of hall, after that please park tidily in the village. Registration, toilets & download in the hall. Start will be on the road outside Black Swan pub, finish on lane N of village hall, sufficient distance from the road so as not to inadvertently trigger the finish if riding through the village.

The area is a mixture of bridleways, country lanes & moorland tracks with plenty of climbs for the brave. There is also a tricky rocky bridleway which will require care

Start, finish, parking:

Black Swan pub will be open  (no wifi at village hall but available at the pub)

Online entry open until Thursday 16th – 20% discount if you enter by Wednesday

Here are  the draft results that will be sent to BMBO for incorporation into the BMBO league and used for the NYMBO League, please can you check yours are correct by the 10th June.

I thoroughly enjoyed my shorter ride round the lanes and really enjoyed not having to finish by going up white horse bank , thanks to Andy for an interesting course and obtaining permission to use the Rievaulx sporting estate tracks in Bradley Howl, Tanker Dale and Nettledale I made sure my route took me into them , sadly I also missed an easy 30 descending White Horse bank.

I hope you are all getting used to Maprun from a planners perspective it really does make life easier, this time we had the tolerance set at 25m which seemed to cause a couple of issues , so we may revert to 30m next time it depends where David places his controls. We also tried online tracking and this kept Andy amused whilst you were out and we will use again next time as it alerts is if you haven’t moved for 5 minutes , a useful but not failsafe safety feature as it doesn’t work with watches or poor mobile reception.

On the admin front please can you check your name on maprun is spelt correctly and you have your names the correct way round, I have to transfer the scores into the correct format for the BMBO league and if you all did this it would make my life much easier. We also spotted a few riders had gone down a footpath , in hindsight we  should have made this Out of Bounds as it was the continuation of a BOAT,  can I  remind you that footpaths marked on the map are always out of bounds as it can make future events harder to get permissions for if we get complaints.

Our next event is on June 18th on the moors above Masham planned by David Day – I look forward to seeing many of your there.

Coxwold Results draft v2

28 May 2022 Course map