Only a handful of team spots left for the
Untamed VA race, and with the "regular" registration deadline just a few days away (March 31 -- race fee increases as of April 1) I'm betting that by the time I do
my first clinic up in Fairfax on April 12, the race will be officially sold out.
It's always tough to go and talk to people about the sport or a particular event, and then conclude with something like, "If you're excited to do this really cool race . . . too bad because it's already sold out. Suckers!" I'm learning from past mistakes, or so I think, so I've set aside a couple team slots that will only be available to attendees at the
April information sessions. If they don't get taken, I'm confident they'll be gobbled up in May.
I've noticed a couple interesting trends in race registrations over the years:
- -There will always be people who contact you after the event has sold out and explain how they "really planned on racing, but never got around to registering." They'll ask if we can squeeze them in. We always do what we can for people (usually adding them to the waiting list is all one can do), but come on! If you're "really planning on racing" then you should probably have signed up at some point -- especially for a longer race of 30 hours I imagine you'd be training and making prepartions months in advance.
- -Everyone signs up on Fridays. It's funny, but people must be looking out the window at the end of the work week and thinking of doing fun things instead . . . so we always see a big spike in registrations on Fridays.
All this makes me think about our great record of selling out events; the only race I can
think of that didn't sell out was the original Storm the Eastern Shore
AR back in 2005 (nobody thought a race could be fun and interesting out
there, I guess) -- the 2006 edition sold out, after word spread of what
a great event it was. Just a quick rumour I've heard in talking with Pike about HRAdventure later this year . . . a 2008 Storm race
might be in the works . . .