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<p>I missed the first race of the year last week due to family stuff, so was hoping to get out this weekend and get dirty. I was promoting a two day cross race with the bulk of the adult stuff saturday and kids u-16 races sunday. the sunday races were run concurrent to a 8 mile trail run, so it was kind of a fun weekend at a nice venue.</p>
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<p>Spent a relaxing 10 hours friday pounding in 500 stakes and stringing 12,000 feet of caution tape. Course was pretty tricky with a lot of off camber turning on some soft grass. Up at 6 and off to the venue saturday to finish setup and do registration. Decided to do prereg only this year, it saves a lot of headaches, if the riders put the correct information on the forms. Funny the same guys botch up things every single year and make more work for me. Same guys who never, ever manage to help with a race, hmm interesting trend.</p>
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<p>At 11 the women and mas45 raced for 40 minutes. We had a great women's field with lots of canadians and some real talented women. I like that the woman who won looked kind of goofy with a baggy jersey and was all happy with a big grin. She made me smile.</p>
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<p>At noon we ran a kids race. I delegated it to my wife as the results were giving us fits.</p>
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<p>At 1 we ran open and mas 35. We had a really strong field and the two canadians who were leading rode together until the last 200 feet, it was quite a finish. They were riding about 23 mph on bumpy grass, wow. With the big field and short course it was pretty tough staying on top of the numbers. Results were a little messy but I think we got them straight finally.</p>
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<p>Relaxing 5 hours ripping down and re configuring course and home to cook dinner and relieve my exhausted wife.</p>
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<p>Sunday we ran a kids race. I got up early and ran, after 3 days with no exercise beyond pounding stakes I needed it. Kids race was a blast, we had a short course mtb event on some singletrack, then a cross race on a 1000 meter course with a 6 inch barrier. Kids had a blast then we had 10 pounds of hot dogs and 5 pounds of candy</p>
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<p>Relaxing 2 hours packing up the box trailer heading home and unloading all the crap. Still have a bit of paperwork and banking left to close out a successful race. </p>
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<p>Spent a relaxing 10 hours friday pounding in 500 stakes and stringing 12,000 feet of caution tape. Course was pretty tricky with a lot of off camber turning on some soft grass. Up at 6 and off to the venue saturday to finish setup and do registration. Decided to do prereg only this year, it saves a lot of headaches, if the riders put the correct information on the forms. Funny the same guys botch up things every single year and make more work for me. Same guys who never, ever manage to help with a race, hmm interesting trend.</p>
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<p>At 11 the women and mas45 raced for 40 minutes. We had a great women's field with lots of canadians and some real talented women. I like that the woman who won looked kind of goofy with a baggy jersey and was all happy with a big grin. She made me smile.</p>
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<p><img alt="IMG_1473.jpg" class="bbcode_img" src="http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/jroden99/IMG_1473.jpg" style=""></p>
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<p><img alt="IMG_1480.jpg" class="bbcode_img" src="http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/jroden99/IMG_1480.jpg" style=""></p>
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<p>At noon we ran a kids race. I delegated it to my wife as the results were giving us fits.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>At 1 we ran open and mas 35. We had a really strong field and the two canadians who were leading rode together until the last 200 feet, it was quite a finish. They were riding about 23 mph on bumpy grass, wow. With the big field and short course it was pretty tough staying on top of the numbers. Results were a little messy but I think we got them straight finally.</p>
<p><img alt="IMG_1483.jpg" class="bbcode_img" src="http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/jroden99/IMG_1483.jpg" style=""></p>
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<p>Relaxing 5 hours ripping down and re configuring course and home to cook dinner and relieve my exhausted wife.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Sunday we ran a kids race. I got up early and ran, after 3 days with no exercise beyond pounding stakes I needed it. Kids race was a blast, we had a short course mtb event on some singletrack, then a cross race on a 1000 meter course with a 6 inch barrier. Kids had a blast then we had 10 pounds of hot dogs and 5 pounds of candy</p>
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<p><img alt="IMG_1488.jpg" class="bbcode_img" src="http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/jroden99/IMG_1488.jpg" style=""></p>
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<p><img alt="IMG_1495.jpg" class="bbcode_img" src="http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/jroden99/IMG_1495.jpg" style=""></p>
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<p>Relaxing 2 hours packing up the box trailer heading home and unloading all the crap. Still have a bit of paperwork and banking left to close out a successful race. </p>