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NYMBO Update – National Weekend Gilling Woods MTBO Saturday, 16th May Ampleforth College were very generous in allowing us to ride through these private woods and Redcar House made an excellent event centre. Andrew Windrum had put a lot of thought and effort into planning a challenging course and he succeeded because it was certainly challenging!! He accepts that it was too long and apologises for causing so many riders (23 out of 78) to retire. The courses lengths were measured by the direct line between controls and Andrew estimated that the actual distance travelled would be about 50% longer but, with hindsight, all of the courses should have been 5 controls shorter. Having said that there was plenty of route choice - although I saw too much of one certain track - and the fittest, most determined map readers lead in each class which is what it's all about. Dennis Hooton had amended the orienteering map provided by Eborienteers to produce an excellent mountain biking map. There were still a few riders who mispunched. Most of them are regular MBO riders who are used to scoring at every control they find. Unfortunately they didn't check the codes as most of them had found a later control by mistake. The woods are beautiful at this time of year and the tracks were varied and not too muddy. The M40's showed the way with the 4 fastest times on the 27.3k A course and Brian Singleton clearly in the lead. Chris Brand Barker recorded the fastest time on Course B beating his Dad (Tony) by 20 minutes. John Tiffany (M60) was fastest on Course C as were the Martin's on Course D. The SportIdent programme highlights the fastest split times for each leg in each class so it is interesting to see where you lost time. Everyone's points were calculated as a percentage of Bryan Singleton's time and carried over to Sunday. Ryedale MBO Sunday, 17th May The start moved to Duncombe Park as the estate had given us permission to ride all of the private tracks in Lower Ryedale. Dave Goodwin was able to link these to the existing bridleways and minor roads to make an interesting course in beautiful scenery - and we didn't get too wet!! I know we are concentrating on our map reading and riding but I am sure that everyone appreciated the bluebells in Riccaldale, the views across the moors from Cowhouse Bank and the stunning scenery near Reivaulx Abbey and in Duncombe Park. A number of riders won their classes for the second successive day. Tim Martin did well to match Chris Brand-Barker while John Houlihan managed to outscore Bryan Singleton but not by quite enough points. Jens Strain had drawn another excellent map although there were a couple of minor errors which caused problems for a few riders. There was an extra track in Riccaldale south of #43. It is just visible on the OS map but hadn't been highlighted. However the control was in the right place at the junction on the bend so I am sorry if you didn't find it - but no extra points have been awarded. A short section of bridlway between #41 and #45 was green rather than black so it wasn't as obvious as it should have been. We wil make sure that the map is even more accurate next year - because we have been invited back by the estate manager!! Thanks as usual to all of the helpers who make these events possible - especially (again) the control collectors who go back out after their rides so that the planners don't have to get them all in by themselves!! Prizes donated by the TCA were awarded to the National Champions by John Houlihan. Full results for each event and leading combined scores are on the web page Overall Men's Champion - Bryan Singleton Overall Women's Champion - Charlotte Somers-Cocks M21 Mark Stodgell W21 Emily Brooks M40 Brian Singleton W40 Charlotte Somers-Cocks X40 Sheila Pearce & Dennis Jacques M50 Tony Brand-Barker W50 Karen Clark M60 John Tiffany W60 Karen Blackburn M18 Christopher Brand-Barker GEN Richard & James Martin Youth Sam Wilson Future events Sunday 31st May - Stonehaugh, Wark Forest, Northumberland 4 hour MBO National Event and third event of the NEMBOS league Entries to Steven Watson at stevenwatson1402@yahoo.co.uk Wednesday 17th June NYMBO 2hour Lanequest New Inn, Eccup, North Leeds GR289429 Entries to nymboevents@btinternet.com Saturday 20th June NYMBO 5 hour National Event in Swaledale Dales Bike Centre, Fremington near Reeth GR046988 Stuart & Brenda Price are providing prizes of one free night's bunk house accommodation for the leading male and female rider. Camping available at Grinton Bridge and accommodation available at the Bike Centre and Grinton Youth Hostel so why not come for the weekend? Entries to nymboentries@stoneriggs.plus.com but please do not enter late by email if you are not certain of turning up. It is a waste of a map. Full results and details of all our MBO events are on the 3 web pages Please let me know if there are any errors in the results, any links that don't work on the NYMBO page or you want your details removing from the mailing list. Hope to see you at one of our events in the near future Steve Willis |
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