Event Details
Club: | SMBO |
Event Name: | Glentress MBO Score Event |
Date: | 01/05/11 |
Format: | MBO Score |
Mapping: | Ordnance Survey |
Time Limit: | 3 Hours |
National League: | - |
League: | SMBO Summer Series 2011 (Round 2 of ) |
Electronic Punch: | SportIdent |
Event Report
Fantastic warm sunny weather on Sunday the 1st of May brought 75 competitors from all over the country to Peebles for the second round of the Alpine Bikes Scottish Mountain Bike Orienteering Summer series. The Gytes Leisure Centre acted as the event centre for a superb course designed by Rosemary Byde.
Check points were scattered over a 90km2 area which included the Meldon hills, Cademuir and Glentress Forest.
Each competitor was given an electronic “dibber” and a map then, starting in their own time, had 3 hours to pick a route around as many of the 30 checkpoints as they could without gaining penalty points by arriving back late.
Katie and Robin Munro won the generation class with 275 points, Outi Kamarainen and Richard Scarborough won the mixed teams with 315 points, Alison Gillies was the top female rider with 305 points and Andrew Windrum was the top male rider with a great result of 406 points. Full results are available at www.smbo.org.uk.
The next round of the series is being held in Innerleithen on the 5th of June, more details are available on the SMBO website.
Thanks to all those who helped in making it such a successful event!