We’ve got a full programme of ten events this year, starting with Askwith on Saturday 29 March. Full details of that to follow tomorrow – you can enter online here.

The summer league dates are all here – including the National Championships weekend in July; and the Swaledale weekend in September. Locations and durations will be updated as I get them confirmed. If you’d like to be the planner for August please do get in touch!

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Facebook is getting less reliable for updates (finding out about an event 6 days after it’s happened isn’t very helpful) so this website, our occasional emails and our WhatsApp group will be the best places to get information. Get in touch if you have any problems with any of these.

Next event – Saturday 29th March – Askwith, Wharfedale

Enter online here – discounted entry until Monday 24th March

Arkdendale Finish

MapRun results are here, please get in touch with any corrections

Claire Riley did a first class job for this event – great course, excellent parking and food logistics and first class March weather. Here’s her report:

The sun was ordered for Arkendale and it turned up!

Thankfully it had been dry for a few days before so tracks had dried a bit and were mostly relatively firm.

The sun order may have accounted for the very few DNS and several EOD. 63 riders tackled the course with everyone seeming to have enjoyed it or too polite to say otherwise at the finish!

It was great to see several GEN teams and particularly the younger generation really enjoying their day out on the bike.

A couple of people fell victim to the hedge trimming requiring a trip to a hardware store for a puncture repair kit. In his rush to assist at the roadside, Ed took a dive resulting in a bit of a bloody knee and unhappy mech but otherwise OK. This didn’t seem to hamper his result too much.

Thank you to everyone who frequented the pub and bought food/drinks. They said it was a pleasure to have us and all ran very smoothly. We may be back for a 3hr event…..

Parking at the farm seemed to work well. At the farmers request we have donated £100 to Arkendale church.

This was my first attempt at organising an event. Lots of learning points and I’m happy it went so well. Thanks to everyone who came.

Next event is at Askwith on the 29th March.

We’ve got a really good entry list for tomorrow – please message if you are thinking of turning up for EOD – some spare maps have been printed so we should have enough but always helps if we know who to expect.

The MapRun download is available at the usual location
select event / UK / North Yorkshire / NYMBO / Winter 24-25 /

Lots of hedge cutting on the lanes – please take whatever puncture protection precautions you need – slime, spare tubes etc.

Martin Vesty is selling a fast and lightweight Specialized Epic Comp 29er for £650 – it’ll be there at registration if you’re interested – there are photos on Facebook too.

All the other details are in the previous posts below, please check the parking arrangements if you’ve do not already done so!

Still plenty of time to get your online entry in for this Saturday’s event at Arkendale. there’;s a healthy entry list already, but more welcome before the deadline on Wednesday night. There may be some EOD maps available but always best to pre-enter if you can. Course map in the previous post.

PARKING: Claire has now confirmed the followinge arrangements – please read!

Parking is at Sunnyside Farm, Arkendale. Access from West Field Lane not Reins where you will be met by a closed electric gate. Go up the side of the Blue Bell pub and after the last house on the left, about 130m, turn left down a farm track. You should probably see Simon Coiley to direct you but if not: park nose/rear in on the hard standing on the left as soon as you go through the farm gate or further down the track nose/rear in on the hard standing on the right.

Opposite the parking on the right, is a barn which we can park side on to, there is no need for the farm vehicles/hay to be taken out that are in it. Hopefully this will accommodate everyone and the road not obstructed. Should these areas be full, there is also parking in the farm yard at the end of the track but please don’t block entrances to the buildings. There may be people visiting the farm so people need to be able to get down the track to the farm house. There are no plans for large farm vehicles to be moving about.

No parking in the pub car park or Village Hall car park opposite. There is another cycling event on which has booked the Village hall and the pub car park is very small and required for staff and people staying.

Food: Pub would be grateful for pre-orders – we’ll send these across Thursday morning so please send by then, orders after that may depend on availability. Menu here (and links to childrens menu)

Parking:

Here’s the course map for our next event based at Arkendale village on Saturday 1st March. Technically, this is our February event – but owing to the way the calendar falls this year we have this event and the next one on Saturday March 29th.

Enter online here – entries close Weds 26th – 25% discount if you enter by Monday

PARKING…. details to follow next week (the pub car park is too small).

Lets hope we can get another excellent number of entries like we did for Easingwold in January

1st March Course Map

Great to see 53 riders for a winter event and we were blessed with a perfect day. Sunshine, no wind, icy roads or muddy singletrack bridleways. As always, I enjoyed planning the course and thought 53k to clear up (on my ebike) would just about be enough to keep the fittest riders going for 2 hours. Ed Oliver-Evans did manage to clear up but needed an extra 4 minutes so I think the plan worked. It’s a great area with stunning views, quiet, picturesque villages and no long steep climbs but just enough to make you notice them.

Congratulations to the class winners, Ed (521) followed by Isaac Pressley (513) in M21, Mark Chryssanthou (M40-472), Adrian Parker (M50-481), Maurice Kelly (M60/70-410), Claire Riley (W40/50-415), Sarah Slade (W60/70-355), Conrad & Jill Ellison (X50/60-399), Fionn O’Toole & Ian Puckrin (Gen-340) on their first event.

The provisional results below and  the Maprun version with splits – please get in touch with any corrections.

Thanks to the staff at the Commercial Inn for providing an excellent event centre and post-event food.

Our next Winter event is at Arkendale on March 1st. Hope to see you there. PS This is Arkendale near Boroughbridge, not Arkengarthdale in Swaledale!!

Thanks to Steve for planning a great event today, perfectly timed to avoid the storm!

MapRun results link here

Provisional results here

Storm Éowyn looks as though it will have died down by tomorrow and the forecast looks good – which is excellent news for the sixty riders who’ve entered. Do let us know if you’re thinking of enetring on the day as spare maps are likely to be limited.

start – finish location

Happy New Year! It’s not long now until our first event of 2025 – at Easingwold, and expertly planned by Steve Willis.

The event centre is The Commercial Inn, Easingwold Marketplace, YO61 3AA

It’s a 2 hour event on the quiet country lane network and a few of the better bridleways in this undulating rural area. You also might visit 3 pretty villages depending on your route choice – Husthwaite, Crayke & Huby

Registration: 0915 – 1015
Starts 0930 – 1030

Keen Parkrunners should note that the Easingwold ParkRun is very close by so it’s possible to do both events on the day.

ENTER ONLINE HERE
Online entry closes midnight Thursday 23rd January
25% for entries by Monday 20th

Course map 25th January 2025

Rainbows!

MapRun results and everyones routes here

**updated – course map below**

North Yorkshire Water Park, near Scarborough, hosted the second of the winter series events. 25 hardy riders braved the biblical forecast of the fast approaching storm Darragh.

Fortunately, the storm held off for everyone, with only a strengthening wind in the later stages. The Waterpark also hosts a regular parkrun on a Saturday morning and 5 keen competitors decided to take part in both events.  These were Tim Evans, David Steel, Dave Robertson, Edwyn Oliver-Evans and Isaac Pressley.  Of these Isaac came out top with an excellent second place and 18:00 for 5k. Not far behind was Edwyn in seventh place.

The course was split by the A170 with 210 points available on the pan flat south side and the rest in the hillier north.  The North covered ground that some riders may remember, going into the village of Sawdon and the up to the edge of Wykeham forest.

All riders opted to clear some of the control to the south of the road, before moving north.  With loops around Sawdon to the west, above Wykeham in the centre, and Hutton Buscel to the east playing a part in most riders’ route planning. Only Edwin cleared the course followed by Nuno missing just one control. However both riders were over the magic 10 min late and so took heavy penalties. Results are still provisional at the time of writing, however it looks like Edwin will take the overall. Second and third will be decided by the penalties. Isaac backed up his excellent run in the Parkrun with 490 points and only 45s late.

Special thanks to the Wykeham Estates for allowing access to the private roads in the area and the Waterpark for providing a great base for the event, hopefully we can return in sunnier times and attract more riders. Many riders certainly appreciated the log fire in the café after the event.

Thanks to Jon for planning an excellent course and a great event centre (including optional Parkrun)!

Thanks to everyone who has entered Saturday’s event – slightly lower numbers than expected so we will have some entry on the day maps available for anyone who would like to come along!

mapRun download is available at the usual location:
select event / UK / North Yorkshire / NYMBO / Winter 24-25 / 

All other details are in the previous post

See you tomorrow!