Here are the control maps for the Saturday and Sunday events at Kirkby Malzeard. You’ll also find the control map is now on the Paradise Farm report too.
Tim’s just working through the final amendments to the results and we’ll update this post when they’ve been finalised and uploaded. Thanks for your patience!
72 riders took on the 5 hour challenge of the 1st Day of the 2025 BMBO Score championships , in what can only be described as damp conditions, although the threatened downpours didn’t really occur till the drive home on Sunday. I had planned a course that I was hoping would be unclearable and Tom Gibbs proved me wrong riding 101km in 4 hours 58 minutes but listening to other riders they had dropped points as they were unsure if they could clear up , Killian even did a long in out for a 5 pointer on the moors that made him 5 points late still he needed the exercise.
Most riders went for clockwise loop and this seemed to give more options at the end as those going anticlockwise dropped the 25 points in Colsterdale thinking it wasn’t worth the 6km deviation. One of the advantages of MapRun is we can see where you went and the pair who decided to go west out of Colsterdale to control 11 probably realised why we had removed it as a route choice as it took them 45 minutes of bog trotting as the nice track you start on soon runs out.
Apologies to those who thought private track meant you couldn’t use it rather than we have permission on the day to use it
Winner on the day was Tom Gibbs with 527 points second was Andy Conn with 511 points and Sam Morris was 3rd with 506 points . First E-bike was Sheila Pearce with 478 points and first lady was Claire Riley with 415 points. Both Under 18s did really well with Oliver Dencher leading with 432 points versus Isaac Pressley with 395 points. Top M60 in 10th was Bob Cherry with 445 points, 1stM70 was Sundays planner David Day with 365 points.
So after Sundays more navigationally challenging 3 hour ride the summary scores gave the following champions:
Overall ( and 1st M21) was Sam Morris with 1014 points who came closest to clearing up
2nd overall and 1st M50 was Andy Conn with 1003 points narrowly beating Tom Gibbs with 1002 points
1st M60 and 12th Overall was Bob Cherry with 845 points
1st Y18 and 11th Overall was Isaac Pressley who managed to overturn his Saturday deficit over Oliver Dencher and scored 868 points Isaac still has his glass and non alcoholic beer to collect
1st E Bike and 7th Overall was Sheila Pearce with 935 points
1st Generation pair were Kevin and Mtthew Goodwin with 740 points and 28th Overall
1st Over 50 Lady and 38th overall ( 3rd Lady overall ) was Angela Brand-Barker with 660 points
1st M40 and 5th Overall was Tom Davies with 959 points
1st M70 and 32nd Overall was Steve Willis who was glad David Day had planned Sunday and didn’t get double points with 690 points
1st and only mix team was Jack Higham and Amelie Wayte who were 48th overall with 561 points
1st Lady and 1st Under 50 lady was Claire Riley who was 19th Overall with 816 points ( beating her normal partner in crime Dave Cowgill who was 22ndoverall)
Congratulations to all our winners and thank you all for attending . I still have some tweaking to do to the master spreadsheet so will get this finished over the weekend and publish.
Hopefully you all enjoyed the first national championship with MapRun , there were very few issue and no missing controls. As we said one of the advantages with maprun is we can see where you all went so if you wonder how Tom went so well on Sunday take a look at his route ( if you look at Sunday you may also were he didn’t go quite so well) The results are all MapRun Results for Saturday and Here for Sunday. However this has picked up a few illegal route choices and riders have been docked points for this, please make sure you keep to the published bridleways and tracks to ensure we are still able to use the area , there were also some complaints about gates being left open overheard in the campsite , again we should always leave gates in the position we found them .
You’ll find the updated Sunday results on the BMBO page here
If you wish to see the unamended results and rider’s tracks you can see those on MapRun here
Here’s David Day’s report for Sunday:
When planning I try to give plenty of route choice options, both between controls & generally over the area. The lack of unanimity of riders’ tracks seems to have confirmed the aim, every control on the map was visited. 18 of the controls were on BWs, pretty well every BW on the competition map had a control on it. I like to use big circles & control numbers, cutting the circles where they obscure detail; I now realise that #14 obscured a private track which 3 riders explored before realising their mistake – apologies for this oversight.
Nobody rode off the map today so another tick for you all.
Top scorer with 508 points was M21 Sam Morris who was also the weekend winner;
M50s were 2nd & 3rd:Andy Conn & Killian Lomas 483.
Watch out in future for Y18 Isaac Pressley on 473.
Leading Ebike was Sheila Pearce 457, 1st W50 was Claire Riley 402 who had ditched usual Mixed partner David Cowgill for the weekend to finish champion lady. Some newbies turned up for the event & some forgot to enter in advance but we squeezed them in, we hope to see some of you at future events.
What made the whole weekend more successful were the efforts taken by Ivy Bank Staycation to make us all welcome & feed what appeared to be the 5000 at times. When I arrived on Friday, boss Sam had just obtained & installed a replacement dishwasher when the original had stopped working& flooded the kitchen; it can be a stressful life running a business but Sam and his assistants Christine &Jenny went above and beyond to make our stay enjoyable, our own dedicated Bike O area was another bonus. All this at a paltry £10 per person per night negotiated beforehand – we do like good value in Yorkshire, you can thank me next time you see me in the bar.
The areas for Saturday and Sunday had different characteristics, we hope the competitors enjoyed both challenges equally.
Here are the final details for the Championship Weekend. Please check here for any further updates during the day.
Weather: the forecast for Saturday isn’t great, please make sure you prepare accordingly and make sure you have a suitable rain jacket with you incase you have to stop as you will get cold very quickly. Please see the ’emergencies’ note below.
MapRun: this is the first year the Championships will use MapRun. There is a simple tester course available to help you get setup. See previous post for map. A5 printed course maps will be available either from the cafe or Steve’s caravan please return the maps after you have used so others can use. To test the course you need to visit at least one control after the start then the finish.
All 3 courses can be loaded using the QR codes (below) or following this location in the MapRun App. You can only load one course at a time, so load the the one you’ll want first before leaving home.
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Both days: Registration 0915 -1015, starts from 0930 until 1030.
Start & Finish locations: The starts on both days are different so we know you are doing the correct course but the finish for all courses is the same at just beyond the cafe. All control sites are different on both day. See pictures below.
EMERGENCIES: Please make sure you have a foil blanket, perry whistle and suitable first aid items. Hopefully most of you are doing this already and have these to hand but we have some spare foil blankets and whistles for you to buy at £2 per item , these are now a compulsory item at NYMBO events. CASH ONLY PLEASE!
Please also make sure to have the event emergency contact numbers (which are on the maps) stored in your phone to make it easy if you need them.
THE FINISH: Please make sure you get checked in when you return and provide a rough idea of your score. You need to do this even if you don’t complete the course as we check you all in and out manually and we don’t want to send search parties out for people sat at home drinking beer!
MAPRUN TIPS:
please make sure you use the same name in the “user profile” as your BMBO entry so no Tim/Timothys Dave/Davids, Steve/Stephen , Tony/Anthony.
When we import the results into SI to help Anthony with the national league and to put the correct penalties on, it must match and there may be a 10 point penalty for all those I have to change.
Make sure your phone/watch is fully charged.
Running another App, like Strava, so you have two GPX track recording will mean in the event you have an issue with MapRun, the manual upload from the other is an option. We find there’s usually aboutr 1-2 people per event who do this.
Here’s David Day’s area map for next Sunday’s event – now finalised (updated 13/07 20:10)
David’s highlighted two things – firstly, there’s a deep ford that can be walked through but is difficult to ride through due to the cobbled bottom. Secondly, as regular riders in this area may recall, there’s a door in eth North wall of Studely deer park which can be used for access.
The start is south of the campsite, the finish is on the campsite. Note that the finish is in the same location on both days but the start is different (partly to help ensure you have the right course loaded in MapRun.
Entry for the events can be found here – remember there’s a 40% discount on all adult entries before midnight on Monday 14th.
For the Championship Weekend at Kirkby Malzeard on 19 & 20 July, David Day has created a ‘test’ course that anyone can ride at any time to test out MapRun. This might appeal to both first-time users of MapRun and regular NYMBO riders who want to test their MapRun settings!
Entry for the events can be found here – remember there’s a 40% discount on all adult entries before midnight on Monday 14th.
All the other details, including camping information, can be found in the previous posts.
The test course has 6 controls plus the start and finish – riding to all the controls should take about 30 minutes but you might choose to just use 1 or 2 to test your phone out. You’ll be able to load the MapRun course from the usual location:
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This will be the location for the Saturday and Sunday courses too.
The course map for Sunday will be posted here shortly and MapRun download confirmation will be next week.
Just under 2 weeks until the Championship Weekend at Kirkby Malzeard. Here is the first of 3 blank course maps that will be available in advance. Firstly, it’s the map for the 5 hour course on Saturday 19th.
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