Our final event for our 2023 league was planned by Steve and Andrea Foster, their race report is below, along with the control map and some photos from the event and the prize-giving. Congratulations to all our category winners this season!

Well I’d better start with a heartfelt apology to those who visited the heinous track between the flooded road and Broxa village. ‘Mea Culpa’ for not checking the final copy of the map. Very disappointed in myself as I had ridden 3 other similar tracks and dismissed them from the original planned course. The only excuse is that Tim & I were making changes to the course up until Thursday as FC had some requests to change / move things about. Note to self, learn to do your own map and check everything with a bit more time to spare. For those that said rest of course was great thanks, and for those who were “spitting feathers” at the finish, quite understand.

I think other than that everyone enjoyed the riding and the challenging terrain. We’ve not been to Broxa and Wykeham for 7 years and quite a lot of tracks had changed in their rideability, we were blessed with a ridiculously warm day for October, no rain and most tracks were riding well.

Highlights for me, whilst out planning were the tracks along the North edge of Broxa, the various bridleways within the forest and the track along the East edge of Wykenham.

Introducing Raincliffe Woods also added some great riding and enough extra distance / height gain to ensure that even the best riders would struggle to clear the course although Andy Windrum did a fantastic effort to get 485.”

Thanks to Doreen at Hackness Village Hall for arranging its use and to Andrea and Liz for administering the sign on / finish, Tim for the map and John Dixon for calculating the league scores, on the fly!

7 October 2023 – Control Map