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HRAdventure Site Down

The company that hosts our website is having some server problems so if you're trying to get to www.HRAdventure.com and the site isn't coming up, we're aware of the problem and the good folks at OptimizeIT are working on it.  I should add that OptimizeIT is a sponsor of HRAdventure and they host our site at a deep discount (by that I mean free) and they really enjoy the work we do in the Hampton Roads community. 

They've been so supportive of our efforts that the President of the parent company of OptimizeIT was so excited about the TASC-2 that he volunteered the property his house sits on as a location for a checkpoint.  Racers on the TASC-2 Sport Course know the checkpoint I'm referring to. 

Here's your final bit of HRAdventure trivia regarding OptimizeIT and ESG International (the parent company of OptimizeIT): the original course for the 2005 Tidewater Traverse included some of their corporate property at their location in Toano, VA.  We had a checkpoint way down in a gully off Six Mount Zion Road (during the 2nd bike leg of the race).  During course testing, however, we decided that the course was running longer than the desired 12-hours max so we dropped this checkpoint and a few others to economize.  These are the "lost checkpoints" that racers never see and course designers cry over their exclusion!  Racers probably appreciated it, however, since the course was plenty long enough and some of those other checkpoints would have been overkill.

Anyway, although our site may be temporarily down, it's not cause for long term concern and everything will be right with www.HRAdventure.com soon.


Comments

MNewlon said:

Gee Grant, I remember you not being able to find that checkpoint either........so even thought those course testers (oh yeah I was one) couldn't find it doesn't mean we missed it.....I still have two black toenails from it......
# October 13, 2005 11:46 PM
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