Monthly Archives November 2011

Gisburn Forest Long MTBO

Nov 19, 2011

Hully Gully

Event organised by Alan Hartley of Pendle Forest Orienteers

A furious 90 minutes of technical, hilly orienteering in the November sunshine

On Saturday it was the final round of the 2011 MTBO National league series. The weather was again near perfect with hardly a cloud in the sky. About 70 riders were racing in the Forestry Commission owned Gisburn forest in Lancashire. The forest has a fun trial center red/black loop, which the event made good use of.

The course was a tale of two halves, with the 1st containing the majority of the technical orienteering and technical bike handling skills; while the 2nd half was easier on the mind, but tougher on the legs with long fire-road climbs and fewer difficult route choices.

Andy had a good run with only a couple of small mistakes to take the win on the day. After the event the prize-giving was held for the National Series winners- please see BMBO in the next few days for confirmation.

Results, Report, and Splits

 

Site Update

Nov 16, 2011

Site update: Rider Gallery, Contact details, Updated rider profiles with racing history and 2012 planned target races

Andy in Privateer Magazine

Nov 10, 2011

Steve Heading and Andy Douglas

Andy Douglas gave an interview to Privateer mountain bike magazine after coming 2nd place overall to Steve Heading in The Polaris Challenge 2011.

Steve won the 2 day, 12 hour enduro MTB-Orienteering by the narrowest of margins- it all came down to only 10 seconds!

To read the full article see Privateer issue #5

Dark and White Trailquest- Grindleford

Nov 06, 2011

Dark and White Trailquests
Start in Grindleford
Riders
Pete Crawforth
Andy Douglas

What a great day to find yourself riding a bike!
Glorious weather hit Grindleford for the second round of the Dark and White winter trailquests.
Andy put in another consistent result finishing 3rd overall with 289 points, well done to him!
My route choice I think may have been a little ambitious considering my skills with a map. Silly mistakes and my GPS deciding to depart from my bike cost me bags of time. Many thanks to the rider who spotted my garmin and gave it back to me, that made my day! I’ve also learned a valuable lesson about finishing on time. There is a 10 minute buffer but anything over that and the penalities start racking up! so my 18minutes quickly tunred into minus 80 points! 🙁 ah well at least it was sunny!

Results, splits, route breakdown (java required) and Dark and Whites own race report can be found following the links.

Many Thanks to Dark and White for setting up another great day of racing!

Oktoberfest

Nov 05, 2011

Following a podium finish at the Kona Oktoberfest 8 hour Enduro in Bristol in 2010. The Riders of Pedal Pursuits have since appeared on the Bike-fest.com homepage for the event.