You’ll be able to see the provisional results for yesterday’s event on MapRun.

There are a few adjustments to be made for a few riders etc – the final results available short. if you have any amendments that you didn’t advise Tony of at the finish, please get in touch asap.

Thanks to Tony for his planning effort, especially a top quality map (I patricularly liked the various little notes for some tracks) Here’s his  report:

Thanks to all of you for coming and for the many kind comments. Apologies for the mud. I could see no way of avoiding controls that required mud, but maybe I should just plan gravel bike events in future. My best control was 19 where the gate was about two feet deep. This control is mostly Tim’s fault as he told me I shouldn’t use the bridleway that crosses the railway line to the NW of 19 (he was right of course as it could have been dangerous), so I moved the control from that bridleway to the other side of the A61. On the day there was a rail strike so the railway crossing would have been entirely safe……

Congratulations to Andy Conn for managing 63km and 362 points. He went NE first and then clockwise, sensibly avoiding the steepest bit of the area up the Washburn valley. As usual I probably used too big an area, but had it been drier, I think the pace would have been significantly faster. Most people told me their ambition and route gradually shrunk as they went round the controls: a combination of mud and hills. And the larger area means there is no obvious single route and you continually have to make choices about road or bridleway and large scale strategy. Looking through the results there is a very wide variety of different routes.

Finally, a big thank you to Tim Evans for doing a lot behind the scenes, including resolving a last minute panic about the maps.

Next event is May 11th at Sutton Bank. Lovely weather, no mud, lots of hills.

Tony