Fifty-seven riders took to the hills and fields around Slingsby and hopefully enjoyed the hastily arranged course that took in the stunning tracks on the Howardian Hills and some of the less used Bridleways to the North.
Full results can be found here
MapRun results including individual tracks here
Thanks must go to Steve and Andrea Foster for bravely going on a bridleway hunt for me once we had the hall booked, Dave Robertson for testing some of the controls and more bridleways out, Steve Willis for buying the excellent savoury food that you all demolished and Tim Brion for using his excellent local knowledge to source the Village Hall keys!
I enjoyed my two rides out testing more of the bridleways once FC had said that they didn’t have time to process our slightly late application for Dalby. I used some of the tracks from last year’s Terrington event but extended North and East to provide some variety, this was also driven by the temporary closure of the bridleway in the southwest corner for ash die back work. Hopefully I manage to avoid most of the nettles and brambles. Dave and I thought the bridleway between 3 and 28 should have been compulsory it was so good. Interesting the bridleway from 16 to 22 which was very indistinct was used by at least 2 riders, one the event winner Mr Conn as his attempt to get to control 12 was thwarted by being the wrong side of the hedge, a quick look at the tracks on maprun shows he wasn’t the only one.
Looking at your tracks on maprun is really useful as it helps for planning future events to see what works and what confuses you. If you want some amusement, go and look at the tracks around control 26, The Fosters and I rode this no issue east to west clearly the access from the west wasn’t as clear.
So overall winner and First M50 was Andy Conn with 490 points, Edwyn Oliver-Evans was second and First M21 with 476 points and Nuno Cerqueria was 3rd and first M40 with 452 points. First Mixed pair was CLAIRE RILEY and Dave Cowgill with 357 points, First M60 was Tim Higgins with 345 points, The battle of the M70’s was a draw with Steve Willis and David Day getting 290 points although the excuses about punctures and saddles falling of makes you realise how competitive they both are. First Lady and First W60 was Angela Brand-Barker First W50 was Jill Ellison, First W70 was Karen Blackburn and first W21 was Ellie Middlemass on her first solo event.
Finally on a more sombre note, Jeff Harris who was a regular planner of the White Rose MTBO, as well as many other events sadly passed away at the end of July, Jeff will be sorely missed, and our thoughts are with his family at this time. The last event he planned was the 2022 White Rose event at Gilling East and we used some of the same tracks this time.
Next event is the Swaledale weekend in September, more details soon.
Don’t forget that if you fancy a trip to Keswick, the next Lakes MBO is on 7th Septembert, entry here
Slingsby Control Map
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