We've got
initial results up for the TT; I've never been fast at getting this stuff processed -- I have no problem going on less sleep or staging things for days
before a race, but once an event is over my initiative seems to dry up and it's a real struggle to follow through on the all-important details of communicating the race results and confirming passports etc. It's tedious work and I'd rather be playing outside, but it's work that is important to closing the circle on a race. If this were a business we'd have the new employees working on this!
Our photos for the TT are pretty sparse because one of our main photographers was up in Canada for the weekend and Will Ramos was doing a wedding (it's that time of year for pro photographers). Luckily, the guys from the
New Balance / Big Head Crew team have made a ton of Tidewater Traverse photos available on their website. You can see everything from the preparations the night before to the post-race glazed over look in the eyes . . . very cool. I snagged a couple for inclusion on this blog post:
As you might guess, the one on the left is after they crossed the finish line and were done "Embracing the Muck" (that was the catch phrase we used during course design for this race). The picture on the right is a unique sort of image from their race preps (probably staged by support crew while the team was racing on Leg 1 -- I suspect); you can see their marked up maps and a bit of how they do their UTM plotting and map notations. Thanks for sharing all the pics guys!
By the end of this week we should have all the post-race work done for the TT and we can officially move on to other things . . . there are some clinics and other races to plan, but next up for me personally and
Team HRAdventure is a trip to Canada for the
Raid the North and another race in August with
GOALS. For Canada, we had to add some new people to the race roster as Mike is out of town that entire month while Pam and Morgan are still getting over knee injuries; we've got Don and Morgan on the hook for support crew for that race so they're still involved. The August race should be a very fun one as we're actually going to enter two coed teams of 3 into that race -- I'm sure the trash talk will be voluminous!