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Race Reports for National College Sprint Series AR #1 2009

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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?

  • Post race activities? Average
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: Ah What a day……where do I start? The race literally started the day before. We each scheduled to leave work around lunch so we could beat the 4 day weekend crowd out of town. Unfortunately that didn’t happen. Butch was pulled into a meeting and we didn’t leave the area until 6pm. The race meeting was from 5-830 on Friday night. Problem: we were 5 hours from the race. So leaving at 6pm we hit only a little traffic on the way and ended up getting to the area at 11:30pm. We went right to the hotel and were asleep by 12:15. Wake up call was 415am. The race was 30 minutes from the hotel so we go up, ready to go and were on the road by 430am. We got to the Boy Scout camp at 5am (where it was -5 degrees) and found the HQ where there were about 12 or so people sleeping in sleeping bags on the floor or tables. We chatted with a race volunteer who was awake and he informed us the race start was pushed back to 7am instead of 6am. (Good for us!) When the race coordinator woke up a few minutes
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