jo..@aracnet.com
Many of us racers work on the West Side. The commute has become just
awful.
What used to take me 30-40 minutes (on a bad night) now takes as long as
2.5 hrs
(I live in Vancouver). Many others are in the same boat (West Side Story
if you will).
With meetings that take place at 3 for me (and who knows who else), it
wont fly
to request a reschedule of meetings that have been at the same time for
years.
This has nothing to do with Short track or any other race. It is, I
strongly suspect,
a matter of simply not being able to manage the cluster that has become
PDX traffic.
Thank you for all of your hard work Jim! You will be missed.
Joe Cipale
On 2016-08-22 16:00, Mike Rosenfeld via OBRA wrote:
> I actually think it's short track.
>
> Not enough racers to split between Monday night PIR and short track.
>
> Numbers were great this year (and in years past) till short track
> fires up.
>
> Could just be there aren't enough masters road racers to keep it
> going.
>
> I hope they can find someone to take on the series. I enjoyed the
> race as a way to prep for CX season. $15 for 70+ minutes of ass
> kicking work out.
>
> Sent from my non windows phone
>
> On Aug 22, 2016, at 2:22 PM, Robert via OBRA
> wrote:
>
>> And CX claims another victim....
>>
>> On August 22, 2016 1:52:13 PM PDT, Jim Anderson via OBRA
>> wrote:
>>
>>> RACERS:
>>>
>>> 2016 Monday Night Bike Race Series - It's a wrap! Come on out and
>>> race the next 2 Monday Nights!
>>>
>>> As a side note....
>>>
>>> I am retiring from organizing Monday Night PIR Bike Race Series in
>>> 2017. My time of organizing has come to an end after "stepping in"
>>> as race organizer way back in 1996 (as a Senior in High School and
>>> taking it on as a "project"). This race series was the longest one
>>> I organized after many other bike race events in the
>>> Portland-Metro area and Willamette Valley area. As a note, I did
>>> take about 4 yrs off when I handed it to my racing team, Team
>>> Oregon from about 2009-2012.
>>>
>>> You may have seen the writing on the wall. After endless attempts
>>> and literarily pounding the pavement with postcard flyers,
>>> mailers, marketing, social media, press releases, publicity, ads
>>> and broadcast media the race series suffered greatly. The lack of
>>> participants has crippled the race series financially. On the plus
>>> side, April and May were nearly record turnout and almost had a 20
>>> yr record! The end of May till current time the entries has been
>>> well below my break even point with many times nearly not enough
>>> to run categories.
>>>
>>> I am in process of looking for a replacement organizer.
>>>
>>> Thanks for support. I need to focus on my other two careers and my
>>> ever demanding work-travel schedule with Axeon Hagens Berman
>>> Professional Cycling Team. Along with focusing more effort as Team
>>> President of Team Oregon.
>>>
>>> My last race in attendance will be August 22, 2016. The race
>>> series continues on August 29, however I will be gone.
>>>
>>> Best Regards
>>> Jim Anderson
>>>
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