Thanks to David Day for planning our January event and everyone who turned up on the day to take part!

The consolidated results can be found here and the MapRun courses that everyone took are here  Control map below.

In 1319 the Battle of Myton took place when a horde of marauding Scots took on an English army of farmers & clergymen south of #23. The outcome was rather predictable with 4000 locals killed & 1000 drowned as they tried to escape.

Fast forward 700 years and a gang of brave cyclists fought their way through the mud from the recently renovated bridge over the River Swale to #23 & then picked up the straw lying on the BW, resulting in some bikes refusing to continue. What a good job that the course was not all like that. I am told that the ploughed field from #6 to #26 was rapid in comparison.

Many of the BWs did have solid bases & were quicker than expected for the time of year. A week’s hard frost only relented on Friday so it had been difficult to predict rideability of some off road routes but there was often a longer road option on many legs.

Thanks to Steve Willis for riding the course a week ago, he was due to be skiing on the day of the event [or maybe not as the temperature there was 12 degrees] & offering advice on the course. Every control was visited on the day with a wide variety of routes chosen. I tried to offer options between controls & clusters of controls – looking at the tracks on MapRun it seems that riders took every option that I anticipated & others too.

The event winner was M50 Andy Conn with 455, M40 Rik Thompson 405, M40 Kevin Goodwin 402; first lady was W40 Claire Riley 392 working well as a Mix50 team with David Cowgill. Best Generation team were Jeffrey & Laura Barber 360, best Youth was Isaac Pressley who had lots of penalties for a late return but still achieved 355. Second lady & also Mix60 with Steve was W60 Andrea Foster 283; 3rd lady was newcomer W50 Katie Gray 265 who enjoyed it so much that she is definitely coming again.

Looking at points scored per kilometre ridden, top of the list is Adrian Parker 8.82 pts/km, best lady Katie Gray 8.38 pts/km – look at their tracks for inspiration & learning.

We had an excellent turnout for a winter event, over 50 entries resulting in some last minute map printing by our nearby orienteering club Claro. Thanks to Dionne & Cameron for hosting us at The New Inn, an area that was new to many of us.
David Day – Planner

The MapRun download is available now at the usual location – here’s the QR code – don’t forget to download before you set off!

David has made some changes to the course map for this Saturday’s event, sadly there are no prizes for spotting the differences with the previous map. All other details as previous posts

Online entry open here (closes midnight Thursday 18th)

Date – Saturday 20th January Venue – New Inn, Tholthorpe YO61 1SL registration – 0915 – 1015| start – 0930 – 1030

Here’s the course map for the next event at Tholthorpe on Saturday 20th January

Online entry open here (closes midnight Thursday 18th)

Date – Saturday 20th January
Venue – New Inn, Tholthorpe YO61 1SL
registration – 0915 – 1015| start – 0930 – 1030

When David checked out the course last year it was mostly ridable; the record rainfall will have softened some BWs but most of them do have firm surfaces except where highlighted. Note the ploughed field which can be avoided or walked.
No hills in this area except for the railway bridges! All river & stream crossings have bridges so conditions should be different to Scorton Lakes.
Parking is at the New Inn, Tholthorpe, YO61 1SL – use the car park until it is full then tidily in the village. Food will be available after the event, please pre-order food before you set off on your ride.

Note that the start finish locations are as shown in the photo and not as on the blank course map

David Day has been out riding snorkelling his way around the bridleways and lanes north of York to plan our next event at Tholthorpe.

The Venue is the New Inn, Tholthorpe, which has exactly the sort of pub lunch menu you’ll want after a couple of hours riding in January!

• Parking will be in the pub car park until that’s full and then tidily in the village.
• Please order food at registration before you start.
• Beware if intending to use Aldwark Toll Bridge – it is closed until ‘early 2024’.

Tholthorpe is another flat area, the only hills are bridges over the railway line! Hopefully, we’ll have some drier weather over the next couple of weeks to let the tracks dry out a bit, but there are no main roads to negotiate & most of the BWs are hard except where marked.

The course map will be published here in the next couple of days when Tim has had a chance to finalise.

Online entry (closes midnight Thursday 18th)

Don’t forget that it’s that time of year when you’ll need to renew you BMBO membership too

It was such a pity that the cold crisp weather couldn’t last another week. The tracks were firm and frozen when I checked the course last Friday. I wondered if Martin Edwards might manage to clear the course but due to the mud he had to leave out 4 controls. I thoroughly enjoyed planning the course and was glad to be able to use the track network around the old gravel pits. It was always going to be a big decision as to whether to visit Scorton Lakes first or leave them until the end. Unfortunately some riders didn’t have enough time after battling through some very muddy bridleways. Thanks to everyone for your positive comments as you finished!!

A few riders missed the bridleway bend heading towards #30 and ended up riding along the disused railway line by mistake. One rider forgot to turn left at #21 and ended up struggling along a very muddy footpath for 2 km before reaching the road. Thanks for letting me know and no penalties for your accidental mistakes as you weren’t trying to gain an advantage.

Thanks to Ellerton Lakes Cafe for accommodating us and to Tarmac for allowing us to use the tracks around the old gravel pits. Thanks also to Tim for an excellent map and John for looking after Registration

Congratulations to the Category Winners

Gents Martin Edwards 464

Juniors Mieszko, Isaac & James 422

Veteran Gents John Rawden 410 (just 5 points ahead of DD)

Mixed Claire & David 408 (just 4 points ahead of Steve & Andrea)

Ladies Sarah Slade 275

Merry Christmas and hope to see you on January 20th at Tholthorpe

MapRun link here. Provisional results below at the PDF link and the full splits will appear on the NYMBO web page soon. Please let us know if we have made any mistakes?

The MapRun table of results and everyone’s routes can be found here. Please make sure your track has uploaded (use HITMO to make any adjustments if required) and get in touch is any problems.

Full report and map to follow

Online entry for this Saturday closes at midnight Thursday – please enter as soon as you can so we can print the right number of maps!

Online entry here

The MapRun download is now ready (make sure you’ve installed the new version of MapRun – v7). You can use the QR code below, or find it manually via the North Yorkshire / NYMBO folders.

The Start and Finish locations are below, and you can find the course map and all the other details, including Steve’s snowy photos of the course in the previous post

See you on Saturday!!

Just over a week until our next event at Scorton Lakes on Saturday 9th December.

Online entry is open until midnight Thursday but please enter as soon as possible so we have a good idea of numbers.

You can start with some fine navigation on excellent tracks around the reclaimed gravel pits but please give way to the many walkers and their dogs. Then it’s a variety of quiet country lanes in fairly gentle countryside with just 5 mainly dry bridleways but please take great care crossing or using the 3 busy roads on the map.

Please park at the entrance to the car park leaving the closer spaces for the regular customers and choose your meal beforehand when you register.

It looks like a good forecast for the next few days, cold but dry, so the tracks should be firm but please take care on any icy patches

Event will use Maprun7 with 25m radius on controls , reception is okay at the venue but it is recommended you download in advance and have tried the software on the phone you are using before the event. Any problems please contact NYMBO in advance , short test courses can be supplied if required.

Here’s Tim’s report and the finalised results for Sicklinghall – apologies for the delay, it’s been a bit busy!! Sicklinghall Results

42 riders turned up on what turned out to be a far better day than originally forecast, with later starters having slightly less rain . I enjoyed my rides checking control placement and knew that even with the rain most tracks would be rideable. My main errors and apologies, was using local knowledge in a couple of places, the Bridleway behind Wood Hall which has changed recently and the bridleway north of the Devils Toe Nail where locals know to keep left and pick up the track, I was unaware that the bridleway crossing the old railway was now more prominent and also not shown on the 1:50.000 map ( it is on the 1:25,000) I can see from the traces that this caught out a few of you and I can only apologise.

Thanks to all of you for turning up and to the Scotts Arms for the hospitality and for the positive comments on my planning which seemed to make you all have to think carefully about where to go. When planning the map I looked at the 2015 and 2019 maps and decided to keep the area about the same and if tracks had been a bit quicker Martin may have got over 500. The trouble is the western route can’t be made shorter as there are no tracks that you would want to use and many of you realised this and committed to it

The results and riders routes are on the maprun server here , and a results summary is here: Sicklinghall Results, Thank you to all those who have uploaded your results, I have assumed a couple of the groups and if I have your score wrong please let me know and I will correct.

Congratulations to Martin Edwards the overall and M40 winner who rode 53 km and scored 385 points, second and 1st M50 was Simon ‘I’m taking it easy ‘ Coiley with 346 points and 3rd and 1st M60 was Paul Dobson with 325 points. 1st M70 was David Day with 302 points ( after an organisers recount!) 1st Ladies were Jemima Parker and Jo Anderson with 225 points , 1st Mixed pair were Lindsey and Robert King with 211 points and 1st Generation were Rik and Ewan Thompson with 174 points. 1st e-bike was Tony Thornley with 295 points

The results from today’s event can be found here – choose Sicklinghall from the list. please let Tim know of any errors or corrections asap – and if your result isn’t shown please get in touch!

MapRun Sicklinghall