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Turner, Ted

2005-02-10

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I'd like to remind everyone once again before Cherry Pie that field

sizes are limited to 100. You will likely be extremely frustrated if

you travel several hours to the venue only to be turned away because

your race reached the limit and you did not pre-register. As you might

have guessed, it's the Senior Men's fields that have reached 100

entrants at CP the past few years.

The field size restriction is particularly important for rider safety at

CP because the roads are narrow and several fields are on the course at

once, including the two largest. Race neutralization, to allow slower

fields to be overtaken safely, has been common. The change in the

schedule for this year may minimize this, but you should anticipate that

it will occur again. Also, early season centerline etiquette has been

really sloppy and there are certainly more inadvertent bumps across the

line with huge fields. Have fun, relax, stay in your lane - and

pre-register!

On another note...I made some time after finally getting a Broadband

connection to upload more cyclocross photos from last fall. If you're

not burned-out on 'cross photos, then please take a look. The photo

gear I used was all rented, so I spent much of my time just figuring out

how to use the stuff, but I had fun shooting these events nonetheless. I

have hundreds more photos, but probably won't have time to upload more

for several weeks.

More images from the Oct. 9th event at Alpenrose:

http://www.pbase.com/turnert/cyclocross

National Championships at PIR:

http://www.pbase.com/turnert/2004_ccx_nats

~ Ted Turner

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I’d like to remind everyone once again before Cherry Pie that field sizes are limited to 100. You will likely be extremely frustrated if you travel several hours to the venue only to be turned away because your race reached the limit and you did not pre-register. As you might have guessed, it’s the Senior Men’s fields that have reached 100 entrants at CP the past few years. 

The field size restriction is particularly important for rider safety at CP because the roads are narrow and several fields are on the course at once, including the two largest. Race neutralization, to allow slower fields to be overtaken safely, has been common. The change in the schedule for this year may minimize this, but you should anticipate that it will occur again. Also, early season centerline etiquette has been really sloppy and there are certainly more inadvertent bumps across the line with huge fields. Have fun, relax, stay in your lane – and pre-register!

On another note…I made some time after finally getting a Broadband connection to upload more cyclocross photos from last fall. If you’re not burned-out on ‘cross photos, then please take a look. The photo gear I used was all rented, so I spent much of my time just figuring out how to use the stuff, but I had fun shooting these events nonetheless. I have hundreds more photos, but probably won’t have time to upload more for several weeks. 

More images from the Oct. 9th event at Alpenrose:

<A HREF="http://www.pbase.com/turnert/cyclocross">http://www.pbase.com/turnert/cyclocross</A>

National Championships at PIR:

<A HREF="http://www.pbase.com/turnert/2004_ccx_nats">http://www.pbase.com/turnert/2004_ccx_nats</A>

~ Ted Turner

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