Sorry for the delay but here are the Handicap Results for Barningham
Congratulations to Jeff, Phil, John, James & Julia and Sheila. They can claim their free entry to our next event at Ingleby Greenhow by emailing their details to nymboevents@btinternet.com
2014 Barningham 50000 Working Drawing with Controls 23rd February Congratulations to Ben Martin on his first overall win when the event was dominated by a strong westerly wind.
It was great to see 80 riders travel north for what would have been a NEMBOS event last year. I thoroughly enjoyed checking out these rarely visited bridleways north of Swaledale. I knew that some of them didn’t exist on the ground so I was very pleased when 3 gamekeepers allowed us to use the private estate tracks across Barningham, Hurst and Scargill Moors. The wind made riding west very difficult so not many riders opted for the long route up the Pennine Way.
Thanks as ever to Jens for another excellent map and the helpers who made everything run smoothly as well as Barningham Village Hall for an excellent event centre.
Scores were lower than usual due to the strong wind so congratulations to the category winners especially Ben Martin (M21) who won overall for the first time with 367 points, Phil Webster (M50) 353, Phil Upton (M40) 336, Ray Morriss (M60) 331, James Martin (M18) 280, Sheila Pearce (W40) 280, James Annan & Julia Hargreaves (X50) 230 on a tandem, Alan & Ben Botham (Gen) for the second event in a row with 175. You can follow their splits and check out the map on the NYMBO web site.
Andrew Windrum wasn’t well enough to ride so retired after an hour and Andy Conn had a mechanical so everyone will be scoring more league points than usual this month!!
I wasn’t particularly looking forward to collecting controls having listened to your comments about the wind as you finished. Fortunately, the sun came out and the wind dropped so I had a great ride above Barningham collecting 41 57 (taped route) 52 and 38. Andy & Chris Parson had a long but enjoyable off-road drive across Hurst Moor and the Pennine Way. Thanks also to Jenny Sutton, John Dixon, Graham Townsend and Phill & Sarah Collings who collected the other 16 controls. Everything was collected in by 6.15 and I was home by 7.
The next NYMBO event is a 3 hour MBO Score event at Ingleby Greenhow on Saturday 17th May.
Don’t forget that the OMM Bike is in Kielder Forest on 26th & 27th April so more great riding in Kielder, Kershope & Wark Forest using maps drawn by Jens Strain. I’ve planned the courses with a lot of help from Jim Imber and we’re looking forward to putting out the 60 controls next Friday.There will be an exellent event centre at Hawkhope just beneath the dam and 100 riders have already entered. You can still enter online and full details are available on http://www.theomm.com/events/OMM_Bike_Spring/
You can also enter on the BMBO site.
Hope to see you at another event soon
Steve
Here’s the map without controls for next weekend for you to peruse. At least it should be here, lets hope it’s worked properly unlike last month.
Every year we like to support the hard work of the Scarborough and Ryedale Mountain Rescue Team. One of their fundraising events is a half marathon – here’s some information from Tony Heap if you want to take part. Links to fliers included at the end.
Just to let you and your fellow bikers know that this years Ravenscar Coastal Half Marathon organised by the Scarborough and Ryedale Mountain Rescue Team is Sunday 11th May 2014, in the past we have had a number of runners from the wider umbrella of clubs entering the event on a sporadic bases which has been a great support, so I have attached the entry form and poster, everything same as last year (still £10 pre entry), you may be interested to know the local Mountain Rescue team Organises this event as a fundraisers so it’s a relaxed low key affair, but it might be of interest to your bikers as something different. It certainly not a fell race but as the height gain and loss over the 13.1miles is 1100 it’s a nice undulating run mainly on coastal footpaths, so some of your bikers may fancy a different challenge that will work some different muscles and all the £10 goes straight to the Mountain Rescue Team.
It was our busiest callout year last year, that has 2 impacts on the Team, firstly we spend more money and 2nd we lost a lot of fundraising events actually doing callouts, so this fixture really help the team, so it would be really great if you could pass on to your runners or anyone you know who may be interested, we are good at search and rescue and quite a few mountain bikers, but complete novices at advertising so any help appreciated in spreading the word on the event which is in its 4th year but lacking in numbers (100 to 130 of last few years), so even just putting up the poster at one of your events would be a great help.
Thank you
Tony
Conrad and Jill have been hard at work planning the May event, here’s and update from them:
Jill and I have enjoying planning the event. We’ve hired Ingleby Greenhow village hall for the event centre so it’s a guaranteed downhill finish. We’ve put most of the Great Broughton to Chop Gate road (B1257) as out of bounds and all but one of the checkpoints is in the NYM National Park.
It’s given us chance to ride and walk bridleways we haven’t visited in ages over the likes of Urra and Cold Moor. Last weekend we did our last recce and the tracks were bone dry (will it last ?!!).
View from Urra Moor looking west towards Cold Moor and Cringle Moor
For those of you who can remember Richard Martin planned an event from Lordstones at the top of Carlton Bank a few years ago. The event will cover a similar area except we’re not going as far to the west as Richard did and covering a bit more to the east over Baysdale Moor.
Happy riding.
Jill and Conrad
Here are the adjusted results for last Saturday.
NYMBO League Handicaps (Updated 5th April)
Congratulations to the winners who can claim a free entry (by email) for Barningham in April – Simon Horlock, John Skelton, Helen Bagley, Chris Hollingbery, Ruth Greenwood & Graeme Murray
I worked out the handicaps based on your results in the NYMBO, BMBO and NEMBOS leagues last year as well as the 3 winter events. If it worked perfectly everyone would end up with the same score as the winner. 44 riders scored more than Andrew Windrum’s 506 points so I need to do some tweaking before Barningham. Any comments/suggestions will be gratefully received.
I have a full list of everyone’s handicap which I will post before Barningham once I have made a few changes.
Here are yesterday’s maps which were drawn by Dennis Hooton and Emily Benham.
Thanks to Andy & Corinne Parsons for another excellent course on the Hambleton Hills which Andrew Windrum couldn’t quite manage to clear. Must have been saving himself for putting out controls tomorrow. 120 riders enjoyed dry but windy conditions.. Thankfully, the weather had improved over the last fortnight so the tracks were much easier to ride than in February – and definitely better than this time last year when they were covered in 2 feet of snow!
Thanks as ever to Jens for another excellent map and the helpers who made everything run smoothly as well as Sutton Bank Visitor Centre for an excellent event centre. It’s just a pity that the cafe closed so promptly even though I had told them about the event a month ago. Congratulations to the category winners especially Andrew Windrum (M40) who won overall with 506 points, Ben Martin (M21) 448, Tim Evans (M40) 438, Roger de Faye (M60) 427, Andrea & Steve Foster (X50) 394, James Martin (M18) 370, Sheila Pearce (W40) 364, Alan & Ben Botham (Gen) 235. You can follow their splits and check out the map on the NYMBO web site.
I thoroughly enjoyed my ride as ever despite the headwind heading back to Sutton Bank. I was also chuffed to see my grandson competing with his Dad in the Generation class. The future of NYMBO is in safe hands!!
2014 Sutton Bank 30000 Working Drawing with Controls 2nd March
I will work out and post the Handicap results tomorrow. There will be free entry at the next event for the 5 leading riders.
The next NYMBO event is a 4 hour MBO Score event at Barningham & Arkengarthdale on Saturday 12th April. Hope to see you there.
Steve
You’ll find the results here:
http://nymbo.mountainbikeorienteering.org.uk/2014/01-WhiteHorse/
A great day with plenty of dry tracks, despite the strong headwind! Full report to follow shortly.
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