Pistis Mountain Bike Racing Team
Hey thats a idea, we need all the schools to go year round. Sorry to the teachers in OBRA land.Cliff McCann Pistis MinistriesPistis.us541-659-4104> From: dirtsurf@ykwc.net> To: thompsok@loswego.k12.or.us; obra@list.obra.org> Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 13:10:18 -0700> Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] Falls City Firecracker AWESOME> > 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> >> > _______________________________________________> > OBRA mailing list> > obra@list.obra.org> > http://list.obra.org/mailman/listinfo/obra> > Unsubscribe: obra-unsubscribe@list.obra.org> > > > > _______________________________________________> OBRA mailing list> obra@list.obra.org> http://list.obra.org/mailman/listinfo/obra> Unsubscribe: obra-unsubscribe@list.obra.org
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