Harry Phinney
Greg has an excellent point. I strongly suggest moving the 50-59 class
championship to the Rehearsal date in place of the 40-49 class. Of course,
this is entirely unselfish of me, and has nothing to do with a desire to
race for both my age class (50-59) and my category (2) championships.
My point is that you can't please all of the racers with any constrained
configuration of these events. Choose to compete in whichever class/category
is most appealing and/or challenging to you.
Harry Phinney
From: obra-bounces@list.obra.org [mailto:obra-bounces@list.obra.org] On
Behalf Of Greg Bruce
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 9:24 AM
To: Richard Haight; obra
Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] Rehearsal Road Race - Input Asked
I don't have any feedback on the proposed questions, but I was wondering why
the Masters 40-49 is the only Masters group that will not really have the
opportunity to race on both days (Race their category and race their age)
unless they choose to race the Senior Men category on June 14th, which is
not a viable option for most Masters men aged 40-49. I am guessing that the
vast majority of Masters men aged 40-49 are Cat's 3,4 and 5 and it would
have been nice to have the opportunity to race in our category at the
rehearsal and then in our age group at the OBRA Road Race like all of the
other Masters age groups get to do.
If it is a matter of spreading the races out on the two days, why not move
some of the races/racers who are less likely to race a category race over
into that Masters 40-49 slot and vice versa? I am pretty sure there are a
whole lot more Masters Men aged 40-49 that would race their category also,
if given the chance than there are Masters Men 60+ or Womens 50+ or Juniors
10 to 14 who would race a category race at the rehearsal.
I am guessing it may be too late to change anything at this point, but I
would hope we could think through the format a little better in the future
and use all of the great statistical information we have available to us in
making these decisions.
Thanks
Greg Bruce
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PFM
Vice President- Western US
Tel: 541-948-3051
Fax: 541-382-4895
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From: obra-bounces@list.obra.org [mailto:obra-bounces@list.obra.org] On
Behalf Of Richard Haight
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 8:51 AM
To: obra
Subject: [OBRA Chat] Rehearsal Road Race - Input Asked
Hi All,
Here's the first installment of information for the upcoming Rehearsal Road
Race (May 24th) and OBRA Road Race (June 14th) championship events.
The course is the same as last years' Three Rivers Road Race. The 16-mile
circuit features a long gradual climb and accompanying power - descent and a
short uphill finish. There are plenty of chances to move up in the field,
via technical turns and short punchy rollers. Last year we saw everything
from successful breakaways, to pack finishes, to shattered fields.
I would like input on the following:
1) I have heard the Women 3 may prefer to race in the "Women Senior" group.
Right now we have them separate, as we were following formats from previous
years. In any case we will score them separately. I would prefer to combine
the groups, to have one less field on the road.....comments? The combined
race would occur at the 10:30 start time.
2) Vendors..... I've often wondered about the racers perception / want of
vendors at events, and also vendors perceptions as to whether its worth
their while. I had thought to ask a food vendor (maybe the High Schools
Booster Club), a nutrition / supplement vendor, a personal coach type, a
local clothing company....like I've seen at cross races. Do people want
this? Any vendors out there that are interested? Who have I missed?
Our goal is to provide you really fine championship events. Please review
the flyer ( http://www.obra.org/flyers/2008/road_race_championships.pdf ),
consider the above, and give us some feedback to make that goal a success.
We already have plans to add a motion-based link for a map of the route.
Thank you and looking forward,
Richard Haight
Three Rivers Racing
richardhaight@hotmail.com
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