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Because it is an OBRA Championship, not a state championship. Given the fact that the Portland metropolitan area includes Vancouver, I think those people belong, and the Three Rivers team lives in Longview, just across the river and put on the Three Rivers Road Race in Rainier, Oregon. I do not think it would be fair to exclude them. In fact, there are people all along the Columbia like Dave Zimbleman who consistently race in Oregon, and OBRA was certainly proud of his National Championship. This is not to ignore people in Northern California who race in Oregon as well.
Lets not be parochial and welcome everyone, and if they are the better racer, I guess we have to live with it. I think we are the better for their participation.
I realize that Washington has a different rule, but there is no reason to follow their narrrow perspective. Also, they probably do not have a large contingent of out of state racers compared to Oregon, so it may be less of an issue.
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From: tackyglueit
why would someone from Vancouver count? i don't see why frequently racing outside the state you live in qualifies you for out of state championship privileges?
On 5/7/07, Tim Schauer wrote:
Yep! There are certainly a lot of loyal, very actively racing, long time
OBRA members, that reside in SW Washington. There are even a few good
OBRA events up on this side of the river too!...;-)
-Tim Schauer
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From: obra-bounces@list.obra.org [mailto: obra-bounces@list.obra.org] On
Behalf Of Candi Murray
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 3:32 PM
To: masessa@charter.net; obra@list.obra.org
Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] State Championships
Yes that is indeed the rule. Out of our 2032 riders currently jut over
230 come from California or Washington. I have tried to get away from
calling them the State Championships and just calling them the OBRA
championships Candi
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From: obra-bounces@list.obra.org [mailto:obra-bounces@list.obra.org ] On
Behalf Of masessa@charter.net
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 3:20 PM
To: OBRA
Subject: [OBRA Chat] State Championships
From what I can gather the qualifications for the Oregon State
Championships, in any event, is that the racer be an annual OBRA license
holder. Is that all that's needed? And has this been examined in the
recent past? The reason I'm asking is that this weekend at the Spring
Thaw, in at least one case, someone from Central California bought an
annual license and took home a State Championship medal (3rd place).
This just seems wrong to me. I don't know if he did it just for that
reason or he thought he might come up for another race. I didn't see him
listed as doing any other Oregon races.
Any thoughts on requiring a person to be an Oregon resident to qualify?
Dave M
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