Initial MapRun results and tracks can be found here
Thanks to Jon for planning an excellent, challenging course. Here’s his report:
Event 3 of the summer series saw 58 riders starting in Bishop Wilton. The course was based on the Yorkshire Wolds and covered parts of the Wolds Way and Minster Way and the deep chalk valleys of Millington, Thixendale and Fridaythorpe. Most of the high scoring riders took a clockwise route around the course, straight up the 160m climb out of Bishop Wilton and into the hills around Kirby Underdale before coming back through Fridaythorpe, picking up the rest of the points through Millington on the way back. There were loops to be taken round Huggate and Great Givendale for those not wanting to venture so far. Despite the first rain in a month falling overnight the course was still quite dry. The chalk hills usually mean there is very little mud so there was some fast riding even on the paths. GPS seemed particularly sketchy and a number of riders had issues with MapRun tracking so the final results might take a few days to finalise.
The village hall once again proved to be an excellent venue with plenty of parking for a change.
The event was not without some drama as a rider had a fall and suffered a badly injured hip. Special thanks to the three riders who stopped to help and gave up their event to wait for the ambulance (over two hours). This happened near control 8 which is as far away from the Headquarters as possible so even after the ambulance had arrived they had a long ride back into a strengthening headwind!!
Please check your MapRun results – a number of riders found #17 hadn’t registered as the GPS marker was a little way north of the road junction. If you use ‘HITMO’ in the results to amend the control to 40m it should pick it up. Any other problems, get in touch!
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