The Back Yamma Bigfoot is back again in 2013!  Make sure you set aside August 25th 2013 for some Back Yamma Forest mountain biking.

Event Wrap Up – 2012

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The Back Yamma Bigfoot has been and gone for 2012.  Thanks to everyone for coming and making it a great success!

Results

The complete results are up on the website here.

We made a couple of mistakes at the presentation for which we sincerely apologise.  Next year we’ll be aiming to use electronic timing again.  Below are the final podium results.

We’d like to make a special mention to those that missed out on the recognition at the presentation:

• Michaela Watts – 1st Open female 100km
• Craig Morris – 3rd Master Male 50km
• Jamie Boulding and Stuart Kilduff – 2nd pairs relay

Two Big Feet – 100km

Big Foot – 50km

Two Odd Feet – Pairs Relay

Little Foot – 29km

Congratulations to everyone who completed the event, especially those who achieved excellent results above.  But the biggest congratulations go to those that had the most fun!

Lucky winner of the major prize!

A very lucky Peter Taylor was the winner of the major lucky entrant prize.  He walked away with a fantastic Merida TFS 500D bike, valued at $1299!

Event Photos

There’s some great photos from the race available from Stent Event.  You should be able to find a photo of you on your bike there from during the race.  You are able to download these high quality photos for FREE, so it’s worth taking a look.

Merchandise

We have some merchandise left over so let us know if you are keen to grab some.  Please contact us if you didn’t collect your pre-ordered merchandise.

There are a few Jersey’s ($85) and T-shirts ($30) left.  Get in quick before they go, contact us here.  If there is a big demand for the jerseys we can take names and get some more made so let us know.

Jersey Bins (sturdy zip lock bags to keep things dry) -1 bin – $8, 2 bin – $15, 3 bin – $21, 4 bin – $26 (plus postage)

Socks (M, L, XL) -1 pair – $8, 2 pairs – $15, 3 pairs – $21, 4 pairs – $26 (plus postage)

Thanks

We want to send out a big thank you to all these organisations that contributed to make our event a success:

And a special big thank you to:

• Parkes Rotary – for their great food and showers
• SES – for their marshalling and communications
• St John First Aid
• The Parkes Astronomy Club – They came out on Saturday night in case the stars poked through the clouds but unfortunately the clouds stayed.  Though those who camped on Sunday night had very clear skies.

Lost and Found

Let is know if you’ve lost anything at the event.  Including an arm warmer.

Till Next year…

See you all next year when there may be a tad more single track.  Remember to keep up to date on face book and twitter.

Also, save the date for the Ginja Ninja 250 in Orange on the 3rd February 2013.

The Back Yamma Bigfoot is providing professional photos from the event for *FREE*.

They are provided by Stent Event Photography who take great photos.  Follow the galleries link from their website.

The 2012 Back Yamma Bigfoot has been run and won.  I hope you all had a great weekend!  I know we did!

The overall 100km male winner was Jason English, preventing James Downing from getting his 3rd win.  The fastest female over 100km on the day was Michaela Watts.

Over 50km the overall winners were Kylie Webb and Lachlan Paton.

The provisional results are up on the results page.  Let us know if there are any mistakes.  ***18/09/2012 10:16am Updated*** -  Some corrections.

We had a strong showing from the new Super Masters category this year.  We weren’t sure how popular it would be so just had a combined female and male category (similar to the juniors).  We want to give a special mention to the sole female super masters entrant, Lorraine Werry.  She came 5th in the Super Masters 50km with a time that would have given her a 4th position in the Masters Female 50km!  We even had a rider over 70 years old!  My new life ambition is to ride the Back Yamma in my 70th year.

Stay tuned for details of photos and a further event wrap up.

Check out the facebook page here.

Just a few last minute things:

Last minute entries

Online entries close midnight Friday night.

Entries can be made at Back Yamma forest but only on Saturday at registration.  No entries will be taken on Sunday!

Note that all entries taken at Back Yamma Forest on Saturday will incur a late fee of $5/rider.

Last minute video

For all those who should be working today but are day dreaming about the weekend at Back Yamma, here’s another video showing some riding at the Back Yamma forest.  All of this is part of 2012′s course.

This was all taken with Contour’s cameras which are pretty awesome.  Some of them even have a GPS which lets you do some interesting things.  Check them out.

Entrant List

Here is the entrant list valid at Tuesday evening (4th Sep).  If you entered since then you won’t be on the list.

This is so you can check if you are entered correctly.