Calendar Event: January 19, 2008 - January 20, 2008

Postby inzane on Mon 21/Jan/08 12:18pm

Man... tired today! 2 days of marshalling and helping out. Great to see so many people out there and loving the course!!

Well done on organising perfect weather for the racers Craig and Rebekah!!
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Postby danose on Mon 21/Jan/08 12:27pm

Count_Stylie wrote:
I think Danose is just giving me a hard time.


ahhh - you vanished when I said that, so figured you'd started with vet1! I was lurking down the back of the bunch, since I know that if I sprint off the line I'll blow up spectacularly :(

now you know who the dodgy old git in the bike biz top was!

great race - I cruised the whole thing and had a great time(I'm too slow on the descents to make hammering the ups worthwile :blush: ). Did miss the deathly climb that 'the dodgy bit' has now broken up (used to be good for a bit of pukage), but I'm probably the only person who did :satan:
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Postby XCrider on Mon 21/Jan/08 12:36pm

good to see the results up so fast :cool: good to see i finished with a bit of a last lap burst :)
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Postby XCguy on Mon 21/Jan/08 12:38pm

I wanted to say on here that we were SOOOOOOO appreciative of the help that Becs and Scolly gave us last night after everyone else had left. We didn't leave the course till after 8 and the two of them helped pack up the mountain of gear and finish demarking etc, and also took a heap of stuff home for us (which is just as well cos the trailer and our car were full so it saved us another trip out there to get that stuff today). You guys are awesome. Even little Bradley helped by being such an awesome placid happy little baby and letting his folks carry on working away.

As I said earlier we had an amazing team of helpers this year. Having a huge team of people help us for the whole weekend was just fantastic. This event requires heaps of work as there are no facilities at all there so there are loads of toilets, marquees, water containers and all sorts of stuff that all needs to be brought in. The event would not have been what it was if it was not for all the many hours that all these guys put in. So big thumbs up to you all! See, right there, big thumbs up =} :thumbsup:
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Postby Clarky on Mon 21/Jan/08 12:39pm

Danose, you're just a wierdo - your last lap was your fastest lap!?!?
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Postby XCguy on Mon 21/Jan/08 12:40pm

danose wrote: Did miss the deathly climb that 'the dodgy bit' has now broken up (used to be good for a bit of pukage), but I'm probably the only person who did :satan:
Yeah, Shailer liked that old steep sheep track section too. I have no idea why. You guys are just odd :crazy:
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Postby XCguy on Mon 21/Jan/08 12:41pm

Clarky wrote: Danose, you're just a wierdo - your last lap was your fastest lap!?!?
you needed to look at his race times to tell you that?
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Postby danose on Mon 21/Jan/08 12:44pm

Clarky wrote: Danose, you're just a wierdo - your last lap was your fastest lap!?!?


I remember going up lovers lane/dodgy bit on the last lap thinking "Oh no, my legs are giving out, I thought I was riding really conservatively and taking it easy?" - guess who got to the steep bit before Boars Nest and discvored he'd left it in the middle ring the whole way so had inadvertently gone up to race pace :blush:

it's ok clarky - one day you'll be as old and doddery as me :blush:
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Postby danose on Mon 21/Jan/08 12:46pm

XCguy wrote:Yeah, Shailer liked that old steep sheep track section too. I have no idea why. You guys are just odd :crazy:


because it hurt! espec the nasty little turn left at the top onto the 4wd section! :thumbsup:

in a race/strategy sense - it wore people down nicely so you could attack up the 4wd befoe getting in to Boars nest

I reckon you should make it 5 laps next year - 4 is just a tad short :satan:
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Postby Outy on Mon 21/Jan/08 12:47pm

XCwife wrote: One of the riders took GPS readings at the weekend and put them on a google earth image. Here is how the course looks now...


Any idea how we can get hold of their kml file?
I couldn't find it in Google Earth Community.
Cheers.
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Postby Tama on Mon 21/Jan/08 12:50pm

danose wrote:I reckon you should make it 5 laps next year - 4 is just a tad short :satan:
Race Pro Elite - 6 laps of fun :thumbsup:
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Postby XCguy on Mon 21/Jan/08 12:51pm

Outy wrote:
XCwife wrote: One of the riders took GPS readings at the weekend and put them on a google earth image. Here is how the course looks now...


Any idea how we can get hold of their kml file?
I couldn't find it in Google Earth Community.
Cheers.

I will PM you his email address so you can ask him
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Postby danose on Mon 21/Jan/08 12:52pm

Tama wrote:
danose wrote:I reckon you should make it 5 laps next year - 4 is just a tad short :satan:
Race Pro Elite - 6 laps of fun :thumbsup:


I'm 20 years too old for elite! :paranoid:

craig - what do you reckon, mt vulcan 12 hour day/nighter! :satan:
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Postby Outy on Mon 21/Jan/08 12:54pm

XCguy wrote:
Outy wrote:
XCwife wrote: One of the riders took GPS readings at the weekend and put them on a google earth image. Here is how the course looks now...


Any idea how we can get hold of their kml file?
I couldn't find it in Google Earth Community.
Cheers.

I will PM you his email address so you can ask him


Thanks, maybe I'll make it out there next year.
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Postby XCguy on Mon 21/Jan/08 12:54pm

danose wrote:
Tama wrote:
danose wrote:I reckon you should make it 5 laps next year - 4 is just a tad short :satan:
Race Pro Elite - 6 laps of fun :thumbsup:


I'm 20 years too old for elite! :paranoid:

craig - what do you reckon, mt vulcan 12 hour day/nighter! :satan:

Like I said, one does not need to look at your lap times... ;)
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