Results are here (any controls with zero values have been removed) – drop Tim a note with any questions or clarifications).
Here’s Steve’s report:
I can’t remember such a prolonged period of heavy rain. We have already arranged to use this course on Saturday 11th July followed by 4 hours in Wensleydale on the 12th.
Saturday entries will be transferred to our new Swaledale event on July 11th 2026. If you can’t make it, please ask for a refund or for a free entry at another nymbo event.
Please dont ride on any of the private tracks on Barningham or Arkengarthdale moors. We only had permission to use them on Saturday so please stick to the bridleways.
What a difference 24 hours makes (as the pictures show!) . Glorious sunshine following 24 hours of continuous rain so riders could enjoy the rather damp tracks either side of the fast flowing River Swale.
As always, I thoroughly enjoyed checking out the tracks during the dry summer months as it’s such a glorious area. With controls on both sides of the valley it was a tough decision to decide when and where to cross the Swale. Its interesting to look at your routes on Maprun which were very different. Not sure about Andy’s decision to cross the bog through 19 and 24 (for no points) as it was the shortest route between 29 and 9! It can’t have been much fun.
Thanks to everyone for returning with positive comments and congratulations to the category winners.
Wine, drinks bottles and cake boxes from the DBC:
- Tom Gibbs
- Bob Cherry
- David Day
- Fiona Wright
- Angela Brand-Barker
- Karen Blackburn
- Claire Riley & Dave Cowgill
- Mike Hayward
- Sheila Pearce
OMM vouchers were presented to the 8 riders who competed in the Wye Valley event and this weekend:
- Ria Murray
- Andy Conn
- Ifor Powell
- John Rawden
- Michael Connor
- Alan Shergold
- Helen Bagley
- Mike Hayward
Thanks to the keepers for letting us use the private gravel estate tracks, DBC and their staff for making us welcome and Tim for drawing an excellent map. We realise that the minor roads weren’t obvious so we will highlight them in future. Hopefully we’ll see more riders at our final event in Cracoe on October 4th. Enter here!
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.
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.
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.
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