Splits are on the Results page

It’s a pity that there were only 27 riders but they raised £200 for the Scarborough & Ryedale Mountain Rescue Team. Some of the tracks were a bit muddy but the weather was much better than the previous day’s cold north-westerly wind. Thanks to Jens for another excellent map which he printed free of charge, Barbara for helping me at the start and finish, FC for not charging for a permit, the Fox & Rabbit for an excellent event centre and BMBO for waiving the levy fees. Finally, a special thanks to Frank & Sandra Appleton who were the marshals at Breckon Howe then collected the rest of the controls in after the riders had passed through them.

Hopefully, we will celebrate the tenth running of this event next year with a lot more riders.

Steve

Thanks to John Dixon adding your scores from Malham and Pickering. Please let me know if there are any mistakes. There are still 4 events left so plenty of opportunity for change

LEAGUE 2015 after 7 events

James is ahead in Y18 but Nathan & Max can both score well if they get the opportunity to ride

Roy & Chris Partington have a lead of 4 points over Steve & Ben Collins but have ridden one more event

Graham Tibbott has a 40 point lead over Ben Martin in M21

There have only been 2 rides in W21 so it depends on who turns up

Phil Collings has a 22 point lead over David Cowgill and they’ve both ridden 5 events but AW and AC have only ridden 3 times this year so who knows.

Sheila Pearce has a strong lead in W40 so looks like repeating her winning ways from last year

John Rawden has a lead of 16 points over Michael Nayler but Tim Evans has averaged 85 points per event so far

Helen Bagley has a clear lead in W50

David Day has a 17 point lead over Ray Morriss in M60 but plenty of riders still in with a chance

Karen Blackburn looks like she’s going to win W60 again

Andrea & Steve Foster have a clear lead in X50 over Ralph & Chris Defty and not many teams competing in the other age groups.

All 4 courses at the OMM Bike in Swaledale on both days count for the NYMBO League. The par score will be worked out from the highest points per hour on any of the courses.

If the best score on Saturday is 700 on the Polaris then it will be 700 on Long, 500 on Short and 300 on the 3 hour course.

If the best score on Sunday is 240 points on the 3 hour course then it will be 400 points on Polaris or Long and 320 on Short

You can still enter the main event on http://www.theomm.com until September 11th and the 3 hour course on http://www.bmbo.org.uk until September 16th. Hope to see you there.

We have got 30 entries for the Moors Marathon but only 2 volunteer marshals. (Thanks, Frank & Sandra). Please let me know if you would like to marshal a checkpoint usually for 3 hours so that the riders get some refreshments on their 100k ride. It will also mean that I don’t have to collect the controls in at dawn on Monday!! Cheers, Steve

The ninth Moors Marathon takes place on Sunday 6th September. There is a choice of four routes, all starting from the Fox and Rabbit Inn, 5 miles north of Pickering on the A169. Registration between 8am & 9am, start between 830am and 930am.

You can find the event flier here

You can enter online here

2015 Moors Marathon

Congratulations to Andy Conn for another great ride. Sorry for the lack of SI kit. Thanks to Smurf for an excellent course and to Geoff Moorhouse for checking all of the cards and working out the results. MALHAM 2015 RESULTS

If there are any mistakes please let me know.

The ninth Moors Marathon takes place on Sunday 6th September. There is a choice of four routes, all starting from the Fox and Rabbit Inn, 5 miles north of Pickering on the A169. Registration between 8am & 9am, start between 830am and 930am.

You can find the event flier here

You can enter online here

You can also find the location map in the events section

The blank map for the Cropton Forest on Monday 31st August is now available

VENUE GR 926 813 Wethead Farm, Stape, Pickering YO18 8QN (6 miles north of Pickering so leave the A170 at the traffic lights, drive through Stape and follow the White Rose signs into the forest. 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

Online entry here

The blank map for Malham on Saturday August 29th is now available below

VENUE 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

Online entry here

We really enjoyed visiting Dalby to check the control sites and then riding the trails again to hang controls Friday evening and Saturday morning. Dalby provides great route choice and excellent tracks for all abilities and it was great to hear people telling me how much they had enjoyed their rides on the finish line, even some who had struggled to find one or two controls.

As we have to do the planning several months in advance of the event in order to get the permissions and maps prepared conditions can change on the tracks. It was March when we went out to the forest to check out potential control sites and my photos of most of the sites looked totally different to what we found on Friday evening. I did try to pick locations where we could get the controls close to the path hoping they would not be too overgrown this clearly didn’t always work out. There were several sites where we had to beat the bracken down on Friday evening to get the sites we had  planned and there were a couple of sites, e.g. 57 where we moved the control across or along the path slightly to avoid the vegetation. Sites 51 and 45 confused a few people, so sorry if you wasted some time or could not find them. If in doubt make sure you read the description for control placements – these two were a little way from the map feature – I thought I had marked them clearly with red and white tape, but maybe it had gone missing.

The last event I planned in Dalby was September 2010. We had about 100 riders at that event and Andy Conn was the only person to get all of the controls, but 4 minutes late back. This time I laid the controls out to make the total distance a bit less for 2015 and so thought possible someone might clear the course. I also put several high scoring controls near the start to give the fitter riders more of a challenge and a more satisfying ride with some high scoring controls for the majority. I hope people liked this. It was a shame we did not have so many riders this year with the clash with the start of the school holidays, but we had some pretty high scores with Graham Tibbot and Tim Evans getting most controls.

Andy & Corinne