Candi Murray/Oregon Bicycle Racing Assn

Odometer Reading Temperature Notes

5 44 degrees

10.8 42 # 55 off the front

12.5 41 raining, #5 off the back

13.5 40 starting to climb 73, 38 dropping

13.8 39 its sleeting now #2 dropping

14.3 38 It's snowing 60,10,21,43,69, 42 falling off

15.3 40,53,77,62,41 dropping

15.8 starting to snow harder, dropping 81, 57, 20, 79, 5

4,65,1,55,74,8,59,19,80,17,32,48,16,29,84

16 37 Climb still has 4 miles to go

16.6 36 dropping riders, 51,52, 45, 22

I mention to the the riders we only have 100 miles to go! Yikes!

35 dropping riders 13,37,44,64,3,68,86

The temperture guage on my car starts to clink at 32

34 Descending, at 35 mph

sky is cleaning, riders getting back on the field, 86.3.68.44.30.13,64

24.3 40 no more 13 flats

25 Rider comes back to ask how my new car did on the descents and

corners- go race!

26.5 37 flats

26.9 42 44, 71 chase back on

27 71 flats

27.6 43 71 chases back on

8 more riders chase back on

29.1 44 Motor officials mentions that we are in an open range area

29.8 44 Scared 4 cows

31.4 46 Starts to lightly sprinkle, can see some blue sky through cloud

breaks

33 47 Radio says there is a herd of cattle ahead, wonder what that means?

35 48 More chatter about cows, motor goes forward to find out what is

happening

37 49 I tell the field aobut the cows ahead, a group takes advantage of

the

situation and charges off the front

41 49 Cows, a whole herd of them, in the middle of the road., Group

stops, there are lots of wranglers trying to get the cows organized.

Most of them look very young.

41.2 49 Riders take advantage of the stop to do a mass nature break, a

'wrangler' shouts "Hey there's a girl here" Oh good I hope this is n

ot another venue we lose due to urine.

42 More cows, some bulls - No Bull ! Sorry

42.8 49 We restart the group "moo ving" with the time differences for when

we stopped them

45.1 50 Downright balmy! starting to climb again

45.3 Dropping riders again, 61, 22, 57,79,19,

50.4 9 dropping

55 46 Climbing still, 20, 29, 13, 52, 65

56.1 44 losing 55, 48

57.4 42 2nd summitt

62.6 51 back

70.1 42 Feed #2

70.3 Some riders missed their feed, I U turn and go back and stock up on

bars,

Pepsis and gu

71 Hand out food and drinks to the group

85.5 48 still losing riders 48, 37, 73, 29, 74

87 86 and two other riders drop off

99.9 49 heading in to the finish

102 We hear there is a train cross ahead and a train on it, what next!

103 Train crosses ahead of us, no problems

112.1 Crash, two riders down- Back up and chasing

116 Finish 5hours 18 minutes, Oh joy now we get to do results!