2012
The date of the 2012 ride is confirmed, Sunday 7th October. Entries will open shortly.
2011
Getting to the ride
The ride starts and finishes at Brightwell Park, Nr Watlington, Oxon. Click here for Streetmap, or here for Google maps, or add OX49 5NP to your SatNav. Click here to download a printable map. Much of the ride is on private land, by kind permission of Brigadier Nigel Mogg and family, and the ride start and parking are in Brightwell Baldwin village by kind permission of the Nixey family.
29/9/11
With sunshine forecast for Sunday and the going perfect at the moment, this year should be a great ride. We’ll be offering non-alcoholic beverages at checkpoint 2 to keep you refreshed!
The forecast for Saturday is equally good, so please take the opportunity to walk some of the course which will be open for inspection on Saturday October 1st, from 2pm.
The course is 12 miles long, so you may not have time to walk all the way round, but the majority of the jumps are concentrated in four areas, and are quite close to roads - please visit as many as you can, so you know what to expect on the ride. Ordnance Survey map Explorer 171, Chiltern Hills West, covers all of the course.
Brightwell Baldwin (Streetmap link)
Britwell Salome (Streetmap link)
Icknieldbank plantation (Streetmap link)
Britwell Hill (Streetmap link)
22/9/11
The closing date for the 2011 ride has been extended: entries will now close Wednesday 28th September. If you’re planning to enter by post, please make sure your entry is posted by Monday 26th to arrive in time for the closing date.
2010
25/9/10
With only a week to go before the ride, most of the course work has been completed, and things are looking very good.
Many of the fences have been given a facelift since last year, so we’ve updated some of the pictures on the course map. A couple of the fences have been changed completely:
Jump 6
Jump 53
and the three water jumps have been dredged, given a new gravel base and refilled with water:
So it’s definitely worth walking some, or all, of the course, the day before the ride even if you’ve ridden the course before. Bear in mind it’s 12 miles long, so allow plenty of time if you intend to walk the whole way round!
22/9/10
The going at the moment is good to firm throughout the ride so, with the rain forecast between now and October 3rd, we have high hopes that the ground will be spot on for the ride.