July 21

WWR Captains,

The start times are now posted! If you had a time request, I did my best to accommodate you, but for example, sometimes there were too many teams that needed to start before the time you wanted due to their average pace, so I had to bump you back a bit. Some of the teams I had to start a bit later for the same reason, I had to fit in slower teams. But everyone, if the times you gave me are reasonably accurate, should be at the finish in Steamboat by 3:30 PM.

The opening and closing times of all the exchanges are in the Leg Map Book. The reason for this chart is so you know what time the Exchanges are schedule to open and close. If you are arriving at the exchanges before they open, it is because your team misrepresented their speed and as such, you were scheduled to start too early. Any team who finishes two hours faster than their projected finish time will have two hours added to their finishing time.

If you are falling behind and exchanges are going to close on you, a staff person will present you with your options. Failure to comply with the staff's instructions will be cause for immediate dismissal from the race.

Most of the time, this becomes a problem in the second half of the race. The closing time is based on a pace of 10:30 min/mile for a team starting at 5:30. If your team is slower than this pace, you could run into problems. Or, if your team misrepresented their time and were scheduled to start too late, then you'll fall behind and exchanges could be closing. This problem will escalate as you continue.

I will accept requests for a change in a starting time until Friday noon. Your request must come with a reason for the request. No promises are made that your request can be honored. Any teams requesting to change their start time AFTER Friday noon will be charged $75 until Tuesday July 27th. After July 27th, no start times will be changed as forms will be printed and race packets organized.

Please check your category one more time. If you need to change your category, please try to let me know by Tuesday the 27th. But you can let us know at the start if you had to change your category at the last minute.

There will be one more important email that will be sent to all participants (that had email addresses in the database) before race day.

As always, any questions, let me know.

Have a great weekend and see you in a couple of weeks!

Paul
Race Director