Melissa Boyd
And, congratulations to you and the whole Hart family for doing 22 races
Sunday! I understand that puts your family's total races for the year at a
whopping 500. Surely that deserves some sort of OBRA Achievement Award, or
at least a discounted family rate for your races! Awesome...
Melissa
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Hannah Hart wrote:
> First, I want to say thanks to Mike and Andi Ripley for putting on an
> awesome event this Sunday. The course was fun, and a unique challenge to
> finish off the season. I really enjoyed racing it, even after it became a
> mud pit, with almost as much running as riding. Thanks especially for
> making seperate age-graded junior cats, so the younger juniors can compete
> fairly, and for making a SS women cat. Though there were only four of us
> racing in that group Sunday, I know there are a lot more women out there
> who have at one time or another tried Single Speed. If this cat returns,
> the women will come out and race it.
> I also want to say thanks to all the people who loaned us single speeds
> this weekend, making it possible for me and four of my family members, to
> all race single speed together. Thank you, Rob Chapman, of Metropolis, for
> loaning us your spare bike, and I really enjoyed racing against you most of
> the race. Thanks to Sam Rosenberg for loaning us your single speed, and to
> Mike Rosenberg helping us get a lower gear on there as the course turned
> into a mud slog, and we realized we'd need a pretty easy gear. Thank you
> John Osborne for the loan of your bike as well. It was a great bike to race
> on, and between that and your enthusiastic cheering at the run-up, I made
> four laps around one of the toughest courses all year. Thanks to those who
> offered us bikes, which we didn't end up using. Thank you Flo Lebowitz for
> being the first to offer your bike to us last week. We eventually found a
> bike which fit better, but it was very kind of you to offer, and we so much
> appreciated it. Thank you, Dan
> Evens for offering your bike as well. Though we'd already found enough
> bikes by then, we appreciated your offer, and it was very sweet of you to
> trust us to race your Major Jake, even though you were a little nervous
> about loaning it out.
> Thanks to the mechanical support guys from Bike N Hike. Throughout the day
> we had several little mechanical issues, and you were always eager to offer
> assistence in fixing whatever problem we had. You made our day run much
> more smoothely than if we'd had to do all those little jobs ourselves. And,
> last but not least, thank you to the officials who worked so hard to score
> us all day long. You were the ones who had to stand still in the cold,
> while we were at least moving aroung the whole time keeping somewhat warm.
> You guys worked so hard to get our results straigt, even when just our
> family showed up with 7 racers almost all doing multiple races. Santa Cross
> was a great day of racing, and thank you to everybody who made it so.
> The Hart Family
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