Malham Show Organiser’s Comments

Geoff and I enjoyed planning the course this year after Chris Wildman couldn’t find anyone to replace Andy Murphy. We did use the pick of his controls from the last 6 years, reduced the size of the competition area and didn’t put any controls on the Arncliffe road. You seemed to enjoy it and the weather made the riding perfect.

Thanks as ever to Jens for another excellent map; Geoff Moorhouse, David & Zoe Cowgill and Simon & Jack Coiley for putting out the controls on Friday; then Kevin Smith, John Dixon, Ray Morriss, Michael Connor and David & Zoe Cowgill (after her 4 hour run) for collecting them in before the rain started on Saturday.

Congratulations again to Graham Tibbott M21-439 for holding off Alex M40-409 (with a lot of local knowledge) and Andrew M40-404 (who doesn’t need to know an area to score well) by over 30 points. The other leaders were Conrad Ellison M50-364, Roger de Faye M70-324, Heather Tufts W21-322, Ray Morriss M60-320, Angela & Tony Brand Barker X50-279, Sue Austin/Alex Davies W40-278, Clare de Faye W60-240, Jill Ellison W50-213, Karen Blackburn W70-195, and Jeffrey & (10 year old) Laura Barber Gen-164. You can follow their routes using the splits file and course map on the NYMBO site.

I enjoyed both rides because the scenery is always fantastic, the weather was perfect and the tracks were mainly remarkably dry after the recent rain. However, I would rather compete so please volunteer to plan the course if you want the event to continue next year. I wanted to go for a short ride to take a few photos once you had started but couldn’t because the NYMBO computer wouldn’t recognise the BMBO Splits printer. Geoff and I had to recreate the whole event on the BMBO computer before the first finisher returned – and the generator kept cutting out!! I also couldn’t work out how to create the age classes which is why the results are just on one page. It never quite goes right at Malham!! Finally, my apologies to Denis for getting his age wrong!

The next NYMBO event is on Monday, 29^th August where you can sample Dave Lloyd’s excellent course in Dalby Forest which is also part of the Eborienteers White Rose weekend. Don’t forget to print the flier so that you get the reduced FC toll charge of £4.

The 9^th & 10^th events in the NYMBO league are part of the OMM Bike weekend at Cropton on September 17^th/18^th. All 4 courses count on both days and you can enter the 3 hour option on the BMBO site. However, you need to enter the longer courses on the OMM web site and the event is nearly full so don’t leave it too late.

Hope to see you at another event soon

Steve

We have got 60 pre-entries and plenty of spare maps so you are welcome to enter on the day before 9.30. You will also get free entry into the show afterwards.

Don’t forget your camera if you want to take part in the photo competition

Malham Show Photo Competition

Sorry about the link in the previous article which takes you to the Malham flier. Please find the update flier here Dalby Flier

Please print it and bring it with you on Monday so that you pay the reduced toll charge of £4. We have got 65 pre-entries so please register by Thursday midnight so that Jens prints enough maps. Please let me know if you would be able to collect a few controls afterwards

The seventh league of 2016 is in Dalby Forest on Monday 29 August – blank map now available below.

Event Centre
GR 926 813 Adderstone Feld, Dalby Forest, Pickering
Use the forest toll road, 3 miles north of Thornton-le-Dale then  follow the White Rose signs through the forest for 5 miles  Please try to arrive before 12am as orienteers will be leaving FACILITIES Parking, Camping, Registration, refreshments and toilets at the Eborienteers White Rose weekend

REGISTER  11.30 – 12.45
STARTS 12.00 – 13.00

Details #07 – Dalby Flier

Here’s the blank map for Malham next weekend (lets hope for better weather than this weekend’s forecast).

Event Centre
GR900627 Malham Show Ground, Malham village BD23 4DA
6 miles north of the A65 at Gargrave

REGISTER  8.30 – 10.00
STARTS 9.00 – 10.00

Details #06 – Malham Flier

Here are a couple more pics from the Moors Marathon courtesy of Adi Gossage and Jill McGee (including the annoyingly hard final climb of the day!)

Please send any others here and I’ll upload asap.

Here are a few photo’s from last weekend’s Moors Marathon. If you have any of your own you’d like to add to the gallery please send them to nymbo.events@gmail.com.

Don’t forget to add any comments about either of last weekends events too!

Wykeham & Broxa Organiser’s Comments

Thanks to Jeff Harris for an excellent course in these 2 mature forests separated by the steep sided Derwent Valley. The wet winter and spring followed by a mild, damp summer meant that the vegetation had grown vigorously so some of the tracks were quite overgrown so that I can still feel the effects of the thistles and nettles. Also, most of the smaller tracks were soft so the going was tougher than usual. However, none of this stopped Graham Tibbot from visiting all bar one of the controls!!

Thanks as ever to Jens for another excellent map, Geoff Moorhouse, Karen Blackburn and John Dixon for helping on the day and Tim Evans, Edwyn Oliver-Evans, Adrian Parker, Michael Brough, Dave Evans and Graham Tibbot who collected the controls after they had finished.

Congratulations to Graham Tibbott and the other leaders were Andrew Windrum M40, Mark Rowley M50, Roger de Faye M60, Sheila Pearce W40, Jill Ellison W50, Clare de Faye W60, Angela & Tony Brand Barker X50 and Chris & Roy Partington (Gen). You can follow their routes using the splits file and course map on the NYMBO site.

I enjoyed my ride despite the mud and nettles but just stayed in Wykeham Forest so that I didn’t have the dubious pleasure of the byway at Thompson’s Stepping Stones.

The next NYMBO events are on the August Bank Holiday weekend at Malham and Dalby. On Saturday, 27^th August, Geoff Moorhouse and I have planned a course based on the best of the controls used over the last 6 years. On Monday, 29^th August you can sample Dave Lloyd’s excellent course in Dalby Forest which is also part of the Eborienteers White Rose weekend.

Hope to see you at another event soon

Steve

You’ll find the results and splits from Saturday’s event here.

The full report should follow tomorrow, but in the meantime, here’s a reminder that events at this time of year are a constant battle between rider and the undergrowth – thistles on the bridleway between controls 46 and 36.