We're weighing our options with the race next summer, and a comment to a previous post here continues to spur us on. We're looking at a 55-60 hour course for
Untamed New England and considering mixing in a 15-hour "short" course in conjunction. The economics are smart: you get more teams on the course, even if it's just part of the course, and the event appeals to a wider range of participants.
My question: is 15 hours "short" enough?
We have other options, like doing a 6-hour bike race or a 5 hour paddle race or a 8 hour trek-a-thon . . . I think you get the idea. There are lots of ways to split a 55-hour, 200 mile, event into smaller marketable pieces but what is the right balance? What can our staff support?
Personally, I just want to run the long race so our focus isn't split. I'm confident we can get 30 teams to the starting line of the long course, which would balance the books and let us just conduct one event.