Mugdock SMBO Photos & Belated Thank Yous

Belatedly, what a crackin’ day the SMBO event turned out to be!  The feedback from the competitors was really positive; a great course, a well organised HQ, great prizes and great soup and cakes.  Hopefully it’ll spur some folks on to try an SMBO event next year or to help out if we organise another one in the future.

A big thank you needs to go to Tenn Outdoors (shorts and snoods) and Dales Cycles (goodie bags) and various club members for supplying prizes for the event, Bullands Coffeehouse and Andrew Smith’s wife for supplying the soup. There’s a lot of work beforehand, on the day and afterwards so a big thank you to everyone involved in helping out with setting up the hall, obtaining prizes from sponsors, managing registration, issuing maps, collecting back in all the checkpoints and signage, the excellent homebaking crew, prize giving officials and the hall clean up team.  It’s definitely a team effort so thanks to everyone involved.

A special thank you to Angus, Tom and Will for setting up the course and printing the maps and finally a special mention to the big fat high pressure sitting over Scandanavia for the epic sunshine.

I finally managed to upload some of the photos from the SMBO event ….

https://www.flickr.com/photos/glasgowmountainbikeclub/albums/72157673774456311

We’ve Got Prizes!!

The good people at the cycling & outdoor clothing company, Tenn Outdoors, have provided a selection of their Protean 10K waterproof baggies and one-size-fits-all snoods for the Mugdock SMBO this Sunday.  If you want a chance to win some of these (and hopefully have a great ride and enjoy some tea, cake & banter afterwards) then you’ll need to get your name down for the event!

Tenn Outdoors snood

Tenn Outdoors snood

Tenn Outdoors

Protean Waterproof Shorts

Protean Waterproof Shorts

Glasgow Mountain Bike Orienteering 2016

Come join us on October 2nd for something a bit different – mountain bike orienteering! Part of a series of events in the 2016 SMBO calendar (http://www.smbo.org.uk/2016-events/), this is a really fun day out. We put out a bunch of checkpoints in the woods of Mugdock Country Park and the surrounding areas; you start at the sports club and go to find as many of them as you can in three hours. Simple? Well there’s no defined route – that’s up to you, so kind of!

We’ve run the same event a couple of times before and it’s always been a great success. The event is open to adults and children over the age of 15 (or over the age of 12 as part of a “generations” team). You can enter as a solo or a pair; we’ll give you a map showing the checkpoints and a dibber to check in at each checkpoint and undoubtedly some cake at the end… We have aimed to make the course fun for all, from first timers to experienced mountain bikers with lots of easily reachable checkpoints, along with some further afield for those looking for a challenge.  

 All entrants must be a full or day-rider member of the BMBO – day rider membership is free. All the details at: http://www.bmbo.org.uk/membership-information/

The event is now available to enter via the BMBO page here: http://www.smbo.org.uk/mugdock-2016/.

Prizes supplied by:

Tenn Outdoors

Tenn Outdoors

and:

Dales Cycles

Dales Cycles

Prices to enter the event are as follows:

Solo: £15

Pairs: £25

Youth: £5 

Generation Pair (adult/youth): £20

We want to see as many of you enjoying the event as possible but if you would prefer to help out we will need a couple of volunteers to help out on the day. Tasks include setting out & retrieving checkpoints & signage, directing people to Sign On and start points, a small amount of car park attendance (until event starts), course “marshalling” (marshalling is not official or static but it would be good to have a few folks to ride around the course area during the event to keep an eye out for any problems).

If you have any questions about the event or if you can volunteer then please post below, on the GMBC facebook page, contact info@gmbc.org.uk or speak to Graham, Angus, Will or Andrew S.