ProvisionalFixtures2014 – Google Drive
Here is an amended provisional list of fixtures for next year with suggested dates, venues and planners. Thanks to everyone who has offered to plan an event. They’re all filled now! This is only a draft list so please get back to me if you would like to see any changes.
Swaledale Blank Map
Here is the map of Saturday’s area. There are 40 controls on the permanent course so plenty of route choice and don’t forget your pen to write down the letter at each control as we are not using SI for this event.
We have got 30 pre-entries so please enter online by Thursday evening then we can print enough copies for everyone. We will be able to print extra maps on the day if necessary but we have only got an A4 printer and it’s an A3 map!
Please try to get an early start if you are intending to go to the BMBO AGM afterwards and leave enough time for an excellent lunch at the Dsles Bike Centre cafe. Hope to see you there.
Let’s hope the fine weather continues as the tracks have dried out nicely this week
It’s a week until the first winter event at the Dales Bike Centre at Fremington, and also the BMBO AGM. So, this seems like a good time to close the poll on the favourite league event of 2013.
The winner, but only just, is Dalby Forest in September – could that have edged it because of the great weather and the high scores I wonder?
Thanks to everyone who voted.
The dates for the three winter MBO events are now confirmed as:
The exact locations (i.e. the pubs) will be confirmed shortly. The draft details with entry information can be found here; you can enter for the November event now and you’ll be able to enter for the January & February events on the BMBO site soon.
If you want to import the winter event dates into your own calendar, you can use this ical link:
Next year, I am thinking of awarding handicap prizes at each event. This would be free entry to the following event in 5 categories – Senior Men (inc Generation) , Veteran Men (Over 50), Women, Mixed, Newcomers. I worked out your average scores before Masham and used them to create your handicap. I have attached the theoretical results for Masham so please have a look and see what you think. Your handicap would move up or down after each event by 1% for every 10 points you were better or worse than the best (net) score on the day. (The main prizes at the end of the year would still be for the best riders in each age group).
Masham Handicap results
If you’re on our mailing list then you should have received an email on Friday summarising the 2013 league and various other news updates. You can read the email here and, if you’re not on the mailing list, you can sign-up with your email address here.
Don’t forget to vote in the favourite event poll:
And can be found here.
Having the start at the edge of the map usually means that riders have 2 choices, clockwise or anti-clockwise. The leading 3 M40’s all chose the
former route but Andy Conn’s more efficient options just edged it with 452 points over Al Powell 425 & Conrad Ellison 420. In second place overall was
M50 Graham Fielding 435 who decided to go anti-clockwise as did the Vesty generation team 425 & M50 Tim Evans 413. Of the ladies only Andrea Foster, assisted by husband Steve topped 300, in fact the leading 4 ladies were all W50. The quartet of controls around Ellington Firth Wood gave many route choices between them and riders tried
all permutations but it’s not clear what is the optimum.
I should have located control 58 on Witton Fell further south as most riders
went in/out from the north & then used the A6108 to reach the next controls to the east. I had not anticipated this & expected riders to use the
permissive track running east/west on Witton Moor which was quite fast to reach Ellingstring village. Only Steve Willis seems to have tried the
Slipstone Crags bridleway with the deep rocky gullies warned about in the pre-race information. Control 60 may have caused some difficulties but there was only 1 small oak tree on the grass verge at the west end of the wood to the south of the lane (motto: use all the information on the map!)
Many thanks to my control collectors Paul & Sam Leight, Simon Coiley & Andrew Salter, Graham Townsend and Jenny (with her crutch)
Regards, David Day
Thanks to David Day for another excellent course in Wensleydale (and he has already offered his services for next year). It wasn’t as cold as the last time we started at Masham but it was definitely a lot wetter and muddier. Thanks as ever to Jens for an excellent map and the helpers who made everything run smoothly as well as Masham Methodist Church for an excellent event centre and very welcoming refreshments. Congratulations to the category winners especially Andy Conn (M40) who won overall with 452 points, Graham Fielding (M50) 435, Martin & Max Vesty (G) 425 and 3rd overall, Rik Thompson (M21) 378, Geoff Moorhouse (M60) 372, Andrea & Steve Foster (X50) 310, Karen Clark (W50) 295. You can follow their splits and check out the map on the NYMBO web site.
I thoroughly enjoyed my ride again despite the mud. Colsterdale is a hidden gem of a valley and the track past Slipstones Crags really is badly eroded but it made for a pleasant walk. The byway past #55 was hard work but, thanks to the early riders who picked up most of the thorns from the cut hedges, I was lucky to get through without a puncture.
It was great to see so many riders staying for the Prizegiving and congratulations to the NYMBO and BMBO champions. Both updated league tables will soon be posted on both websites so I will write a separate article then. Thanks to Richardson Cycles for the bike parts and Yorkshire dales Brewery for the alcohol. Thanks also to Tony Harker of Muddybums for getting the tee shirts at a very reasonable price and Chris Lightfoot of Keith James Jewellers in Richmond for cost price engraving.
The next NYMBO event is a 3 hour MBO Score event in Swaledale on Saturday 30th November. We will be using the Permanent course so don’t forget your pen and Parking/Start/Finish is at the Dales Biking Centre. This will be followed by the BMBO AGM at Grinton Youth Hostel at 2pm. Hope to see you there.
There will be 2 more winter events in January near Harrogate and February near York. Further details later.
There will be 11 events in the 2014 NYMBO league and I have had offers to plan 5 of them already. Please let me know if you want to volunteer or if you have any opinions on areas, dates, lengths. There won’t be a NEMBOS league next year which is why there are 2 extra events. However, I am planning the Spring Polaris (OMM Bike) next year in the Northeast (and the Autumn event in the North)!
Thanks for supporting our events this year and hope to see you again in 2014.
Steve
2013 Masham 50000 Working Drawing with Controls 12th October
Report to follow tomorrow, results here:
http://nymbo.mountainbikeorienteering.org.uk/2013/9-Masham/
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