Great weather and a great turnout for todays event at Cropton Forest.

I have ridden the tracks kin a lot of different conditions over the past few months, so was intrigued to see how everyone would get on.

MapRun Results here

I tried to plan the course so that a good scores were possible for the majority, and avoiding the worst of the tracks. I wasn’t sure if anyone would get to all the controls, but 3 riders managed that! Congratulations to Andy, Andrew and Ifor!!! You can see their routes on MapRun.

Lewisham Bank is tough on the legs up to the top, but I felt worth the reward (albeit I could possibly have factored in the train timetable for those riders who had to wait at the level crossing!)

#27 was the control where about 50% of riders had a problem (but it was fine for the other 50%). I think it’s one of the best bridleways in the forest so worthwhile.

Technically, this was mostly a troublefree event with only a couple of problems. the main issue seems to be making sure the MapRun notification works loudly enough!!

Very positive feedback at the end (expect possibly for #18 – fine from the west but tougher from the north track up the steep byway!) Some riders new to MapRun and some new to the whole format today too which is encouraging.

Most riders managed to modify their own MapRun scores (to include #27 etc), using the ‘HITMO’ function and uploading a manual revision. But any problems please get in touch this week so we can finalise the results.

Lost property – a phone and car keys were returned to theor owners, but there were a pair of bifocal cycling glasses found – they’re in the the box for the next event if they’re yours.

Course feed back very welcome – it’s challenging to plan a forest course and I know there are some good tracks I missed out!

Cropton Control Map