Postby Chainsaw Baby » Sun Jul 04, 2010 8:05 pm
Hey all. Thanks for the great feedback on the race. It was HOT! I just got in from breaking course (07:00 until 15:00) and cleaning up (15:00 until 20:45) and it was tough just walking the trails!
Last year was too cool for sitting in the river, so I wanted a cool morning and a hot afternoon... I think next year I'll ask for rain in the morning and sunny in the afternoon?
Dennis Campbell works with me at Honda, but is also a professional photographer who show his work in the Mad & Noisy Gallery in Creemore. He took shots at the start, then coming out of the second hill, then across the barley field. I will post low-res on OUSer. Hopefully there will be numbers (?) and if you email me, I will send you the high-res shots.
I will fix the race times (there are some glitches in the 25K times) tomorrow night, then post on OUSer soon thereafter. Some slower times for both the 25K (okay, Mike Tickner is a machine, so he ran the 25K one minute slower, in a time of 1:45) and Laurie McGrath wisely did not kill herself and ran about 15 minutes slower, in the heat. The quote of the day was by Christina Laflamme, who (I think) was second woman in the 50K: "This is no longer my favourite course".
I had a few people say that if you have a bad day at Creemore (50K), you add an hour to your time. Yesterday was a textbook study in the effects of hills, heat and high speed. Kudos on everyone who slogged it out in that heat.