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Rob - Transition Ecology B
Sep 10, 07 - 10:05 AM |
Thanks Gerry and the rest of the volunteers!
I just want to give a HUGE round of applause to Gerry and everyone else who helped out with this race! This was our first 24 hour race and we had a blast! What a beautiful night/day/night! We look forward to next years race. To all other teams: Great job! Also, we plan on sending thank you notes to all the sponsors to thank them and to let them know how much we appreciated their support. Good relations for next year, we hope. Thanks again to all for a great race! Cheers, Rob Williams, Transistion Ecology |
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Bart, Mark and Jerry - Team Bleebin
Sep 10th, 2007 - 11:20 AM |
Re: Thanks Gerry and the rest of the volunteers!
Well organized race with a great group of support volunteers. Gerry was awesome and we hope to be back next year in better shape and finish the entire 24! We did encounter a Mountain Lion between Checkpoints 2 and 3 and will bring bigger knifes next time! NO JOKE! Thanks to all our supporters and for the unknown soldiers who helped us out with hydration during the race! TEAM BLEEBIN |
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Scott - BRBC
Sep 10th, 2007 - 1:19 PM |
Re: Thanks Gerry and the rest of the volunteers!
We wanted to send out our thanks as well; we were very impressed with Gerry and the entire staff. We would like to thank all of you for letting us into the race on late notice and for putting on a great race. From the sweet scwhag bags (love The North Face fleece!) and free energy drinks to the great volunteers, we loved being a part of such a quality event. Well done. scott, whit & steve, team Broad Ripple Bike Club |
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BVickers
Sep 10th, 2007 - 1:57 PM |
Re: Thanks Gerry and the rest of the volunteers!
Gerry and crew, many thanks from us also. It definitely made the trek from Maryland worthwhile. Ok, we could of used less stinging nettles, but it made it more epic. Note to self, bring bonafide orienteering pants next time to Illinois. The maps were awesome, and we appreciated the transposed trails. Signs of a great race organization. We were used to the bracelet punching, and liked it again since we think it helps make it honest. Many kudos to Wedali and Timberland for executing amazing races. Seriously.. We had one ugly stinging nettled infested route choice from cp3-4, and you guys were gone. We pushed it and were spot on our nav from then on, but you guys seemed to keep getting farther away. Congrats on great races! Just out of interest for the rest of us, what route choices did various teams choose after hitting cp10. Thru the forest and elevation changes back down to cp11, or thru the apparent clearings more Easterly. We went up the creek bed contouring toward cp10 and hit it after we searched the next reentrant. The cow paths led us nearly the whole way and it was nearly runnable for most of it. Going back was another story since took some bad advice and went out into the apparently clearing which was full of cornfields east of cp10. Ouch! Bill V |
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Scott - Wastin' Time
Sep 10th, 2007 - 2:22 PM |
Re: Thanks Gerry and the rest of the volunteers!
I thought it was a great race, and a very interesting course. I loved the getting down and dirty water and mud crossings. By the time you reached the CP10 cow pastures, you didn't care anymore if you stepped right in the middle of a fresh pie! In answer to Bill V's question, we took the same easy route up to CP10, then chose the "clearing" to get to 11. After about 20minutes or more of bushwhacking through the thickest treefall and weeds (boy that first row of corn was tempting, but we stayed honest), we turned around, and went back down the cow path we came up on because it was runnable. |
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Tom - Team Ambition
Sep 10th, 2007 - 2:50 PM |
Re: Thanks Gerry and the rest of the volunteers!
Likewise on the CP10-CP11 route. Tried the edge of the cornfield but when we got back to the original clearing, we went back down the trail we originally came up, past the bike drop, and the up the valley towards CP11. Counted steps and took a hard left straight up the hill, and there it was, right in front of us. Sometimes the longer way is faster. |
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Sarah B - (GPS Unit & Team I.O.W.A.)
Sep 10th, 2007 - 3:31 PM |
Re: Thanks Gerry and the rest of the volunteers!
Gerry & all the volunteers, This was our first ever adventure race - all 6 of us were wide-eyed newbies - and we just wanted to say THANK YOU for an amazing experience. Everyone was incredibly supportive throughout the entire race, and we so very much appreciate all the time & effort that went into planning and pulling off such an event! Hope to see you again next year :-) Cheers, Sarah Joe Todd Brendan Troy Amber aka, GPS Unit & Team I.O.W.A |
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Fever River
Sep 10th, 2007 - 3:54 PM |
Re: Thanks Gerry and the rest of the volunteers!
Must add our appreciation for yet another great race - year after year you guys deliver. Gerry, Ron, Sue, Jamie, Fran, Janelle, Russ, Bart and certainly many folks I don't know -- we raced for 18 hrs, you guys put hundreds of hours into everything. Thanks for delivering an event that rates so high on the "adventure per hour" scale. Thunder Rolls is high value! Bob, Frank, Sandy Team Fever River p.s. we encountered the same cp10-11 corn/clearing so we headed out and pace counted from the bike drop. |
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BVickers
Sep 10th, 2007 - 6:25 PM |
Re: Thanks Gerry and the rest of the volunteers!
The killer part for us was when we got to cp11 after going back thru the bike drop, we hit the neighboring reentrant near cp11. So went up on the spur on over to the next reentrant to hit cp11. It was then I noticed the sun just barely illuminating the clearing so I took a took a peak thru the opening and saw beautiful open fields (no corn) seemingly stretching from cp11 to vicinity of cp10. It was a beautiful site, not just the open runnable field, but the glow of the sunrise (maybe it was the caffeine gu though.. hmmm). cp10 was partly surrounded by cornfields, but, if the cornfields ended shortly and maybe it was worthwhile running on the edge till the clearing opened up. I only ask this since I thought I saw a few lead teams ahead of us approach cp10 in this manner and wondering if it was faster than thru the woods. Not saying that people cheated, since looking out over the clearing near cp11 toward direction of cp10, it looked very runnable for a very long distance and possibly a faster route than thru the woods. As we all know, the cornfields reappeared again near cp12 near the glowsticks down to the rappel. Bill V |
Milan
 Sep 21st, 2007 - 11:41 AM |
Re: Thanks Gerry and the rest of the volunteers!
Thank you to Gerry and all volunteers for great race. When I plotted the CP's I thought it was one of the best outlined races I have seen. Gerry used the terraine effectively, evenly split time on foot, bike, and water. (I was really looking forward to that paddle!) Thank you also for offering us to continue as a two person team after our teammate twisted his ankle. (We did not wnt to leave him lonely waiting a whole day for us to come back :)) I personally liked the midnight start so much!! I think that 24 hour races should start at midnight. I hate sleeping just 4 hours before a race start. Night navigation also helps split the racing field. Our team will be back next year for sure! Keep it National Qualifier race! Or bid to run National Championship one! - Milan Team Child's Voice |
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