david baker
No summer break for #$%^&* kids!
----- Original Message -----
From: "kevin thompson"
To:
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 12:56 PM
Subject: [OBRA Chat] Falls City Firecracker AWESOME
> John, and everyone else who is interested,
>
> I am speaking for myself, none of the handful of other mountain bike
> promoters have said they agree with anything I am going to say here.
>
> This year was my 6th year running the Firecracker. Of course I want more
> people there. It takes just as much work to put a race if 10 people show
> up, as it does if 200 show up.
>
> Several years back, Shane Young was doing the OBRA rep job at the mountain
> bike races and one of the things he did to entertain himself was to track
> attendance through out the season. The conclusion that he made was that
> after school got out in June, that fewer racers showed up to race. After
> reading John's email today, I went back to look at my history in the OBRA
> arcives. My data backs Shane's data up. I checked the old schedules to
> see what conficts where happening on the dates the Firecracker was
> happening. This is what I found.
>
> The most surprising to me was in 2005 the firecracer had an entire July
> weekend to its self (just what John seems to want). I had 97 racers.
>
> The complete history is:
>
> July 2003, Brownsville crit, and state track on the same day, 115 racers
> July 2004, Silverton rr, firecracker is the xc state champ, 89 racers
> July 2005, no compitition the entire weekend, 97 racers
> August 2006, Woodland rr, 75 racers
> May 2007, Swan Island, 158 racers
> June 2008, Silverton, 170 racers.
>
> The last 2 years, the race was before school got out and I almost doubled
> participation.
>
> I tried for 4 years to promote a race in the summer, it was not really
> worth my effort.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> See you all at Pickets.
>
> Kevin
>
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