Martha Walsh
Kudos and HUGE thanks to so, so many people for making it possible for us to have a safe, if abridged, race yesterday. We arrived at the finish line 4-5 hours early and were greeted with food, warm (and other) drinks, and blankets. What a logistical feat! Much gratitude to those who were so flexible and accommodating (on ridiculously short notice) so that we could race at all! -Martha
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From: Candi Murray
To: obra@list.obra.org
Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2009 8:11:49 PM
Subject: [OBRA Chat] Elkhorn-Dooley Mountain
Miserable weather!! Woke up to heavy rain, 43 degrees. There were reports of
snow and 35 degrees at the top of Dooley Mountain.
We were seeing an incredibly large amount of riders who choose not to ride
the 109 scheduled event today. I recommended that the Cat 4s do a shortened
version. And was flabbergasted when the Chief Ref decided that all the
categories would ride the modified course. Instead of doing the 109 mile
death march in this weather, we would proceed 12 miles out of town, then 7
miles up Dooley. 19 mile race! The pack was definitely smaller, but there
were many quick phone calls to the ones that still had not rolled out of bed
and we saw a decided increase in participation but still had many DNS (did
not start) riders.
I want to thank all the riders for being so gracious with this last minute
change. It was not what they signed on for, and many were a little
disappointed, but we were really concerned how do deal with hypothermic
riders at the far side of the 109 miles.
This is a wonderful event, and Ernie and his crew work so very hard to put
it on. Please come back and ride the Elkhorn in 2010 - and let's order some
sun!
Candi
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