What a difference 24 hours makes. Glorious sunshine following 24 hours of continuous rain so riders could enjoy the rather damp tracks either side of the fast flowing River Swale.
As always, I thoroughly enjoyed checking out the tracks during the dry summer months as it's such a glorious area. With controls on both sides of the valley it was a tough decision to decide when and where to cross the Swale. Its interesting to look at your routes on Maprun which were very different. Not sure about Andy's decision to cross the bog through 19 and 24 (for no points) as it was the shortest route between 29 and 9! It can't have been much fun.
Thanks to everyone for returning with positive comments and congratulations to the category winners.
Tom Gibbs, Bob Cherry, David Day, Fiona Wright, Angela Brand-Barker, Karen Blackburn, Claire Riley & Dave Cowgill, Mike Hayward, Sheila Pearce received their wine, drinks bottles and cake boxes from the DBC.
Omm vouchers were presented to the 8 riders who competed in the Wye Valley event and this weekend.
Ria Murray, Andy Conn, Ifor Powell, John Rawden, Michael Connor, Alan Shergold, Helen Bagley, Mike Hayward
Thanks to the keepers for letting us use the private gravel estate tracks, DBC and their staff for making us welcome and Tim for drawing an excellent map. We realise that the minor roads weren't obvious so we will highlight them in future. Hopefully we'll see more riders at our final event in Cracoe on October 4th