After yesterday’s wonderful event, I hope, I really believe that we accomplished our goals this year. As a racer, sometimes I can forget the endless hours of planning that it takes to promote a race. But, as a promoter, I know that it takes lots of good people to support you, lots of people committed to putting on the best product, and lots of attention to every single detail, for us that is what made this race so spectacular. As you get to the wire, it can be easy to say “f-it” this is good enough. But really it’s not, that’s a mistake, that’s how you end up with a poorly marked course, and lost riders.

But I digress, as I said every detail, including my decision to not mark legs has to be taken into account. Finally, and perhaps the biggest challenge of promoting is to create customer service. Despite the fact that I hadn’t showered for three days, was slightly hung over, hadn’t slept more than 18 hour in the past three days, We put the race on for the racers and to have fun. I wanted to make sure that I was friendly and energetic, if not fresh smelling, and had fun supporting our friends the racers who we were fortunate enough to have come to our race. I enjoyed this as much as anything. I love seeing so many people I haven't seen in a long time. I enjoyed seeing folks I probably see too much. I loved watching this event come together. Incredibly satisfying.

Okay, I may have lost my cool with one guy, he got my hook of harassing the volunteers, and we got into it, but a half hour later he came up and gave me a big ass hug. So in the end, even that worked out, and frankly I have a respect for the dude. It would have been way easier for him to walk away mad, and been like F- those guys, or worse to punch my geeky ass in the face. It would have been really bad; I'm kind of weak, and not that tough. And I bleed a lot. But in the end, it all worked out. That makes me happy.
(in the above shot slick rick and the dude compare broken hands/wrists. both worked hard for us today)