Seth May

First off, Sal's put a lot of work into making the single track section
passable in almost in most places (cutting back the growth).

Second, I agree it's not idea, but we're working with some limitations that
made this a reasonable option. The Crusade schedule works fine for the
Portland area, but starting event before 9am isn't great when it's 2 hours
from Portland. Plus with early dusk and deep shadow in some areas of the
course, we'll be losing light pretty early.

Nothing is ideal, but I think the course will be challenging and fun. It
should be a good race.

Thanks
Seth

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Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] URGENT: OBRA CCX Championships Schedule Change

This doesn't seem very well thought out.

2 categories where the lead riders are relatively fast (Master B+ and
Clydesdales) are racing with the slowest (Beginners) on a course with long
sections of unpassable singletrack?

If we are being told that we need to use Cross Crusade numbers, why isn't
the schedule and category grouping that the Crusade (and nearly all other CX
races this season) being used? They appear to have the number logistics
already figured out.
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T. Kenji Sugahara

Thanks for the feedback Mike.

This was a decision by the CJ, CR and the promoter given the
constraints of numbers, time and scheduling.

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Mike Szwaya wrote:
> This doesn't seem very well thought out.
>
> 2 categories where the lead riders are relatively fast (Master B+ and Clydesdales) are racing with the slowest (Beginners) on a course with long sections of unpassable singletrack?
>
> If we are being told that we need to use Cross Crusade numbers, why isn't the schedule and category grouping that the Crusade (and nearly all other CX races this season) being used?

halfwheelhill@yahoo.com

I was thinking the same thing. Master B's is a pretty fast group. Why would they be with the beginners. Very confusing.

Scott
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Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] URGENT: OBRA CCX Championships Schedule Change

This doesn't seem very well thought out.

2 categories where the lead riders are relatively fast (Master B+ and Clydesdales) are racing with the slowest (Beginners) on a course with long sections of unpassable singletrack?

If we are being told that we need to use Cross Crusade numbers, why isn't the schedule and category grouping that the Crusade (and nearly all other CX races this season) being used? They appear to have the number logistics already figured out.
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Mike Szwaya

This doesn't seem very well thought out.

2 categories where the lead riders are relatively fast (Master B+ and Clydesdales) are racing with the slowest (Beginners) on a course with long sections of unpassable singletrack?

If we are being told that we need to use Cross Crusade numbers, why isn't the schedule and category grouping that the Crusade (and nearly all other CX races this season) being used? They appear to have the number logistics already figured out.

T. Kenji Sugahara

Folks-

The schedule for the OBRA CCX Championships is changed. The new
schedule is as follows:

10:00am