Moors Marathon – Sunday 16th July –  Information & Map

Where to now?

A quick reminder of the details for next Sunday and the routes available. PDF here

VENUE GR 846 882 Parking and camping at The Fox & Rabbit Inn, Lockton YO18 7NQ
5 miles north of Pickering on the A169 towards Whitby

2017 PDF of all 4 courses

COURSE A 100km in 10 hours

Fox & Rabbit – Staindale –Jingleby – Crosscliff – Newgate Foot – Saltergate Bank – Malo Cross – Louven Howe – Breckon Howe –Grosmont – Egton Bridge – Delves – Glaisdale – Rosedale Head – Blakey Rigg – Bloworth Crossing – Lowna – Hutton le Hole – Cawthorne – Farwath Crossing – Fox & Rabbit

COURSE B 75km in 8 hours

The same to Glaisdale then Shunner Howe – Hamer Bridge – Low Muffles – Spiers House – Sutherland Lodge –Cawthorne – Farwath Crossing – Fox & Rabbit

2017 PDF of Courses C and D

COURSE C 50km in 6 hours

The same to Breckon Howe then Goathland – Simon Howe – Wardle Rigg – Levisham Station – Levisham Village and Church – Farwath – Fox & Rabbit

COURSE D 25km in 4 hours

The same to Saltergate Bank then Levisham Moor, Village and Church – Farwath – Fox & Rabbit

TERRAIN Some of the best bridleways and moorland scenery in England

MAP Full colour route map at 1-60000 and description provided but the Explorer OL27 (&26) 1-25000 maps might be useful

REGISTER 8.00 – 9.00 STARTS 8.30 – 9.30

FEES SENIORS £15.00 JUNIORS £10.00

Enter online and save £1

ORGANISER STEVE WILLIS 01748 821498

• This is a challenge not a race so no prizes for the fastest times.
• All finishers within the time limits will receive a commemorative mug and certificate
• All riders should carry repair kit, spare tubes, suitable clothing & helmet, food & drink, 50p for the phone
• Refreshments available at 4 checkpoints – Saltergate Bank, Breckon Howe, Bloworth Crossing, Ravenswick,
• Please show courtesy to local residents and visitors.
• All proceeds from this event will be donated to the Scarborough & Ryedale Search & Rescue Team
• Commemorative mugs guaranteed for the first 100 riders. You can ride as solo, pairs, or groups.
• Camping available at the Fox & Rabbit on Saturday for £5. (Only 5 caravans allowed on the CL site)

MAP

All course information and maps online here

Cleveland Hills – Saturday 15th July – Event map now online!

Event centre: GR 559 994 CHOP GATE VILLAGE HALL TS9 7JE

REGISTER 11.30 – 12.45
STARTS 12.00 – 13.00

3 hour event

Enter online here

Congratulations to everyone for finishing, Graham Tibbot for another excellent score, Geoff, Alastair & John for their help and Alex for an excellent course. Here’s the map

2017 Ribblesdale 50000 Working Drawing with Controls 7th May
Planner’s Report
Gill Garth Farm played host to this years 5hr NYMBO event. So how was it? Maybe it is best described as wet. Well, it actually rained non-stop from start to finish, puddles became lakes, streams soon became rivers, water levels rising and floods everywhere – even the parked cars where looking in jeopardy at one point. Its fair to say that the riders were not to keen to start out, even the cow-shed that played host to the event was just too luring and comfortable… but slowly as the clock nudged 10 then one-by-one the riders started, hoping the rain would abate, but it didn’t.
So to the course, I was invited to use Gill Garth Farm, by the Wilson family who farm there, they are the best people around and allow me to do a Fell Race from there as well as the BMBO event and of course the 3 Peaks CX that comes through it. So We owe a really big thanks to them. The northerly location of the base allowed me to plan a course around the upper reaches of Ribblesdale and on to some of the less frequented and more mountainous trails. The route effectively circumnavigated Ingleborough, with a few ‘control clusters’ scattered about the area. Some favourites of the riders, such as the Wharfe single tracks where used, with reports of the slate clapper bridge near CP45 being submerged… My apologies for CP39, the ‘cattle-grid’ location was out by about 100m on the map and also a missing finger post at CP45 meant that a more hidden stone gate post had to be used.
I like to plan a course that is ideally just achievable by the ‘top-bombers’, so it was nice to see that Graham Tibbot got a score of 509 today, on a good day he would have done it I’m sure – so kudos to Graham. However Graham’s kudos has been revoked as he had a whole team of people searching the field getting drenched looking for his missing car key, that later mysteriously reappeared in the middle of his van… It was pleasing to see a good turnout of juniors as well – they loved riding the puddles and the rivers and it made me wonder at what age is it that you consciously avoid a puddle at all cost??? – kids love ’em, I hate the things personally.
Big well done to every who turned up and rode (I won’t mention his name but some chap came from the Loughborough region forgot his bike shoes – anything to avoid a ride in a bit of Yorkshire rain!). Considering the weather most people used most of the 5hrs and got some pretty respectable scores across all the classes, but there were one or two ‘late backs’ that cost them ‘a bit’, but hey never mind!
Happing riding – Alex Pilkington

You’ll find the results today’s rather wet Three Peak event here

Comments and control map to follow.

Saturday 10th June – Yorkshire Three Peaks – map now available…. enter online by Wednesday 7th June

REGISTER 8.30 – 9.45
START 09.00 – 10.00

Event centre: Gill Garth Farm, Selside BD24 0HX ; 2 miles north of Horton in Ribblesdale on the B6479

5 hour SCORE event (with a 3 hour option for NOVICES)

Enter online here by Wednesday

Howardian Hills event – updated results and commentsUpdated results here

 Jeff Harris planned an excellent course with plenty of route choice and the dry weather meant that the fitter riders were going to have to cover the whole of this beautiful area and no-one would have to spend much time cleaning their bikes afterwards. The tracks were the driest that I can remember so that even the ploughed field north of Terrington was rideable.

Thanks as ever to Jens for another excellent map; Jeff for putting out all of the controls; Geoff Moorhouse, Alistair Copeland; Michael Brough for their help on the day as well as the control collectors (see below).  Congratulations to Edwyn Oliver-Evans (M21) for winning again and visiting all of the controls with 8 minutes to spare. Andy Conn (M50) did the same but was 42 seconds late so only 524 points this month. The other leading riders were Andrew Windrum M40-520, John Rawden M60-390, Steve & Andrea Foster X50-385, Sue Booth W50-375, Ray Morriss M70-361, Stuart Pigg; Jake King Gen-351

You can follow all of their routes using the splits file and course map.  I made a mistake with the SI programme as I copied the Cropton file where I had to change the values of 47 and 57 around. Unfortunately, I forgot to change them back again which didn’t matter if you visited both controls. I’ve amended the results and posted the correct version on the web pages. Please let me know if there are any other errors.  Apologies also to 2 riders who tried to find the start at Gilling East. I changed the event centre a few months ago and thought I had updated the web pages. Sorry you didn’t see that but glad that you made it to Brandsby in time. I thoroughly enjoyed my ride as usual on my newly serviced bike and skinny tyres. (Thanks John). Having already seen the map, I had already decided to get the climb over first so headed for Gilling Woods. I reached Hovingham in under an hour so decided to visit all of the controls in the woods before heading back through Terrington and Scackleton. It was very obvious why this area has been designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Don’t forget that I will still be retiring as an organiser at the end of the season so the Nidderdale event will be my last. I would still like to hear from someone who is interested in taking on the coordinators’ role or a few people who would like to manage the events between them. I will still plan an event every year and ride whenever we’re not on holiday, seeing the family or playing golf!!

The next event will be a 5 hour  Score event in the Yorkshire Dales based at Gill Garth Farm in Selside, Ribblesdale and it’s an early start at 9.00am. Alex Pilkington has planned an excellent course but unfortunately I won’t be able to make it so I hope to hear lots of excellent reports.. Steve

Planner’s comments From the comments I received at the finish everyone enjoyed the event, I really enjoyed planning the event, did anyone have time to admire the views from one of the ridges in the area and the Brandsby Village Hall made a great event centre, although the parking was a bit tight at the end. There was plenty of option for riders to plan a route back to the start, you just had to decide at which point to cut back through the middle of the area or stay on the outside of the area, for anyone going for all the controls the main decision was when to pick the controls in the centre of the area, congratulation to Edwyn who managed to clear all the controls with over 8 mins to spare, I knew the area was fast and with ground being so dry there was every chance that someone would clear the area in under 3 hours. Many thanks to Ray, Andy, Andrew, Adrian, Tim, Edwyn and John, for your help collecting in the controls at the end after their rides.

All the best, Jeff

You can find the results for today’s event in the Howardian Hills here

Here’s the control map too, full report to follow.

3 hours in the Howardian Hills – Saturday May 6th 2017

VENUE Brandsby Village Hall YO61 4RF 200m NW of the B1363 at the foot of Brandsby Bank (Bing maps) GR 588 724

FACILITIES Registration and toilets in the hall COURSES 3 hour SCORE event (with a 2 hour option for NOVICES)

REGISTER 11.30 – 12.45
STARTS 12.00 – 13.00

Enter Online Here by Wednesday 3rd May

SENIORS £13.00
JUNIORS/STUDENTS/NOVICES £6.00
ONLINE ENTRY – deduct £1.00
Own SI card – deduct £1

Yorkshire Wolds Report & Results

Control map is here

Planners Report

I thoroughly enjoyed my time planning this event especially the opportunity to explore some magnificent dry chalk valleys. My first and foremost thought was to utilise the best of the terrain. With the new event centre of Bishop Wilton the area naturally divided into two areas and I tried to balance both the number of controls and points on offer in both.
As a planner I like to see people scrutinising their maps at the start providing decision making from the off. A brief look at the results showed that there was a good balance between the northern and southern routes with the leading competitors departing both north and south from the start. All the controls were visited and there was good variance in the routes chosen. Feedback at the finish seemed to indicate that the courses were well received whilst providing a physical challenge with the ups and downs.
We were exceptionally fortunate on the run up to and for the event itself of a dry spell of weather. I don’t think I have ever seen the bridleways so rideable.
Husband Richard has been a stalwart in his support throughout the planning process and in the run up to and during the event. Dave Evans kindly helped get the some of the controls out on the Friday which certainly helped shorten our day considerably. The control collectors of Ray Morris, Dave Evans, Andrew Windrum and Graham Tibbot ensured we got home at a reasonable time after our long day. This has all helped to make planning the event one of the most enjoyable I have been involved with.
Jens provided another excellent map and I couldn’t finish without thanking all those who give time and effort to making this a successful event.

Karen Clark

Organiser’s Report

Thanks to Karen & Richard Clark for an excellent course, Frank & Sandra, Geoff, Karen & John and the 4 control collectors, Dave, Andrew, Graham & Ray who made everything run smoothly yet again and Jens for another excellent map. Congratulations to Edwin Oliver-Evans on a brilliant ride who passed me on numerous occasions while he visited all but one of the controls – unbelievable. We will all score more NYMBO points next month once he’s gone back to university. Congratulations to the other leading riders, Men – Andy Conn M50-499, Andrew Windrum M40-474, Dennis Jaques M60-355, Ray Morriss (on his birthday) M70-354, Ben & Steve Collins Gen-295. Ladies – Sue Booth W50-316, Sheila Pearce W40-305, Karen Blackburn W70-260. Mixed – Andy & Corinne Parsons T50-285, Andrea & Steve Foster X50-274.
I thoroughly enjoyed my ride especially going down the amazing dry chalk valleys (despite knowing about the climb out of each one). Some of the views were spectacular and reminded me why I love our sport so much. Despite that, I will be stepping down after our last event in October so don’t forget that if you want the NYMBO League to continue someone or a few of you are going to have to step forward. Jens has also told me that the Nidderdale map will be his last after 15 years so if you have any cartography skills please let me know.
However, I will be at the next event in a fortnight so I’m looking forward to seeing to at Brandsby village hall and riding on Jeff Harris’ course in the Howardian Hills. I hope they are as dry as the Wolds were yesterday.
Cheers
Steve

WW

Hope everyone enjoyed their ride – results are here, and the control map is below. Full report to follow.

Wolds Map with Controls