Just a few hours from flying back home (finally) and life will return to a semblance of normal . . . wake up, walk the dog, work out, do some computer nerd work to pay the bills, and then get cracking on promotion work for Untamed VA. The Untamed Virginia 30-hour race course is done -- and we've added a 4-hour course to entice the novice racers. It was good to catch up with friends while back in Virginia, too, and reconnect to an area that I called home for several years.
We'll see how the two simultaneous events work out with Untamed Virginia, but hopefully it will introduce new people to the longer race concept instead of keeping them isolated on their "sprint course" island. We're timing it so the 30-hour course racers will be finishing about the same time as the 4-hour course racers, so the energy and excitement should rub off on the shorter course teams and it should serve as a good (and gentle) introduction to longer races. Of course, if the 30-hour racers stampede through the short-course teams it will be a disaster, but I don't think we'll see that.
I still have some wrap-up work to do regarding Untamed New England 2008; the past few days my focus has been on Virginia. All indications are that we'll have a 2009 edition of this race that will be even more rugged and challenging and bring in a new northern New England venue . . . should have more on this later this summer, but it's very exciting stuff.