Originally Posted by
2wheelsgood
i still don't understand why the race was stopped for everyone because of a person not at a checkpoint. at least let everyone that payed finish the race. and showing up to a checkpoint only to find a scrap of paper that says "the race is over!" was pretty lame. I don't know if the course was meant to be ironic as the race was part of the introduction of two new track bikes, a road bike would have been the ride of choice. this prolly sounds more bitter than i actually am. The race was really fun.. while it lasted. this entry was awkwardly written.
I thought that the concept and the race route was well thought out....except they under-estimated how fast the top guys were. The flaw was trying to get 1 person to man 2 different checkpoints.
As for the distance..I thought for a $3000 prize, make em ride for it...suffer a bit. The top fixed person through the checkpoint I was manning came in in about 10th or so. I promise the next big race like this (prolly March) will have none of this drama or problems of Saturday.