Mike Ripley

Hello all, I have been getting a few e-mails pertaining to the

vagueness of the course distances. Doing this for the 9th time I dont

trust the weather and I usually make it to hard for most this early in

the season. My idea of a perfect distance for classes are as follows

Pro-elite winning time 2hrs

Expert winning time    1:45

Sport winning time   1:30

Beginner Winning time 1:15



Of course the most will finish anywhere up to 30 minutes (usually)

after the winner in there class.

I will have the distances after this weekend. I was out with Barret

(the roadie) clearing the trails and tree pushing ( kinda like cow

tipping). The course rocks! and is the best I have put together out in

blodgett. The rain hasent really made adent in the course and it is

very ridable. ( No pushing your bike up muddy hills or trails. Any mud

is on the downslope) As far as the registration on saturday before the

race I thought peak closed at 7pm but they close at 6pm. So if you want

to register saturday and have a license from OBRA come by from 3-6 pm

at Peak sports.It will save you a little hassle the day of the race but

I do have a substantial volunteer group to help. Also to note there is

no senior expert women class only beginner, sport and pro/elite unless

there is 4 or more. The course is the same for the pro-elite women and

expert if there are enough women to split them up. The same goes for

singlespeed women. In the Oregon series there is a class and I will

have a class for them if 4 show up ( cool idea ). Please feel free to

e-mail me with your questions. This year looks like there is an insane

amount of racing going on. Its time to have some fun.



Mike