The updated results from Monday can be found here  – please notify any changes or corrections by Friday. Note that where Tim has added any missing controls, these are shown first in the splits and have a zero time.

52 of you rode on Monday enjoying the fine weather and the dry conditions. I really enjoyed planning the event and it sounds like it was even drier than when I rode. Although I did remove the worst nettles from the course to save your legs. My plan was to make it hard to clear up and Andy Conn’s winning score of 485 meant the plan worked. Interestingly, Sheila Pearce second place overall and first e-bike with 465 points rode 9km  less than Andy’s 67km. Her and Mark seemed to have much more efficient route choices but winner of the points per kilometre was Steve Willis with 8.4 points/km Andy Conn was 7.2. The vast majority of you started with the control in the south east corner and went roughly anti-clockwise. Other category winners were, M40 Martin Edwards with 459 points, M60 Paul Dobson with 420 points, Laura and Jeffrey Barber (generation) with 413 points, first Y18 was Nathan Smith also on 413, first MIX was Dave Cowgill and Claire Riley on 412 and first Solo Woman was Angela Brand-Barker on 360 and first M70 was Steve Willis on 370.

Thank you for all the positive comments and I hope you enjoyed the debrief coffee and cake at the shop afterwards. I must apologies for control 4 it was on the wrong clearing and a few of you spotted the error on the control descriptions with no 23 and 2 29s.  I enjoyed looking at your routes on maprun especially those who braved the bridleway north of Wath , I think only Conrad stuck to the correct route, I did wonder if via Hovingham would be faster. I understand the field crossing NW of 24 was marked by a tractor during the event (actually as David Day rode it) so apologies to those who had a tough field crossing it was stubble when I rode it.

I thought Terrington Village hall was excellent and thanks to them for their co-operation and they would like us back, sadly there is no pub so not suitable for a winter event. Thanks to Dave Robertson for the website work and emails, and the advice on the area, I took out the NE corner controls as the route was grotty and as Andy showed the area was large enough.

Talking about Winter we are looking to plan 4 x 2 hour events so any of you fancy a go at planning and have a local area with a pub / cafe in mind let me know where and when you will be given lots of help

I hope the magenta marking made the routes easier to spot but any feedback is greatly received.

Here’s a copy of the control map and you can check out the individual riders routes on MapRun here (choose ‘show tracks’)

26 August 2024 _ Howardian Hills