2017 Stewart 45 Registration
- Thread starter Norm
- Start date
Thanks for coming out Joe, appreciate your quitting racing after our event and not before it!
Rigidnsingle
Member
Old school xc is the s$it!!! Thanks again mtbnj
Dave Taylor
Rex kwan Do
For the record I love this event. I'd race it yesr after year. I'm sure next year's new location will bring more awesome times. Thanks again.
Just to have it out there...We have not made any decisions yet as to what we are going to do next year. We might change this race into a 24 hour bowling tournament...or maybe we will have an enduro at 6 mile!
thegock
Well-Known Member
This is the BEST run MTB race in the NJ area. Course markings A+ Food A+ Volunteers A+ Crazed, rabid dog chasing racers A+ (jk, @gtluke).
I race endurance best and really want to find an event to replace this on my calendar, if it won't be run. Any suggestions?
Thanks to McCheese and the mtbnj posse for the mammaries, in any event.
I race endurance best and really want to find an event to replace this on my calendar, if it won't be run. Any suggestions?
Thanks to McCheese and the mtbnj posse for the mammaries, in any event.
Mare
Well-Known Member
Puppies!
LND
Active Member
Belated thanks to all of the MTBNJ crew I didn't get to thank in person Sunday. All the time and effort spent planning and executing another fun venue is greatly appreciated. I guess until the next event, whatever that may be, @seanrunnette will need to run live commentary on every ride. @gtluke - loved the pic of your dog in the ice bath. Good times, folks.
Steve Vai
Endurance Guy: Tolerates most of us.
Is this my dog?
I LIKE BOWLING!
1speed
Incredibly profound yet fantastically flawed
So what I hear you saying is that this is not off the table? That would be terrific, because it's really win-win for everyone. Folks like Dave probably wouldn't have to worry about issues with start order because there'd be at least a little time to shake all those things out before the final sprint for the line, and there wouldn't be too much for the official scorers to do since it's really more of a point-to-point exercise than a lap race (so no need to get all "math-y" keeping track of which lap each racer is on.) And while it would probably be a little boring for the folks at the scorer's table during the first three or four weeks prior to the first finishers arriving, I'd say let's call that more of an opportunity to get caught up their reading. Of course, the logistics of getting all the racers to the start line, setting up feed zones, making sure the ice cream doesn't melt, etc. presents certain challenges to be sure, but with an experienced promoter like Norm at the helm, this is totally doable. So ... pencil it in then?
so right at 15 miles...Im making a pretty good estimate....We spend about 60-70 man hours marking, checking and unmarking a race course. Not counting the TM we also do. it is a tremendous effort to do it the way we do it. If @Norm told me we were making a 40-50 mile course, I would just set him on fire.
1speed
Incredibly profound yet fantastically flawed
so right at 15 miles...Im making a pretty good estimate....We spend about 60-70 man hours marking, checking and unmarking a race course. Not counting the TM we also do. it is a tremendous effort to do it the way we do it. If @Norm told me we were making a 40-50 mile course, I would just set him on fire.
The beauty of this idea is that the course is already loaded into GPS files. And I can't imagine MTBNJ would run into any trouble getting insurance to send a bunch of inexperienced weekend warriors like myself out into the great beyond to figure out our own navigation as we make our way across the entire country. I figure that as long as you have a few spots along the way - say, five or six spots across thew midwest and the rockies - where someone is there to serve us solo cups of premium ales and the odd slice of watermelon, there really isn't much prep work to this at all.
Dave Taylor
Rex kwan Do
Makes you wonder how many man hours it takes to lay out an NUE
Pearl
THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING
they arent marked like these courses, thats for sure
Juggernaut
Master of the Metaphor
I don't recall hearing a NUE race recap that DIDN'T have at least "some" racers go off course.
V-Dub
Well-Known Member
wait wait wait, did you say enduro at 6 mile??... I'm pumped
Dave Taylor
Rex kwan Do
I've only done two and no route was needed on my garmin. Mohican and Wilderness were bith great with only one questionable turn on the road at Mohican(it was marked on the pavement but the sign "disappeared"). MTBNJ does a phenomenal job. I am not comparing them to an NUE either, just sayi g the hours put into these events is a lot!