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Incredibly profound yet fantastically flawed
This evening, I opened my email and the first message I saw was a notice of partial refund from Paypal for the TS Epic. Then a moment later, I noticed there were half a dozen more similar notices. I started to get a pretty sick feeling in the pit of my stomach and a moment later, that sick feeling became a full-on broken heart: the last message I received was from Mike saying that this year's TS Epic is canceled. The reason? I kind of already knew having checked the reg with regularity over the last month or so: only 29 people had registered at this point, just two months from the start. That had seemed really odd to me, and I have to admit I wasn't too surprised. Of course, I get it: this is waaaaaay too big of an undertaking to put together when less than 30 people have committed so close to the start. I'm not angry about it. I'm just really, really, really disappointed.
I'd been wanting to do this race for so long, but my schedule at work just never permitted it. The timing was always terrible. But this year, I finally said screw it and blocked off my end-of-May calendar all the way back in December. I was so excited registering on New Year's Eve. I waited to see how many other SSers would join me in grabbing the early discount and was curious who I'd be racing with. But no one else registered in the SS class that night. Or any other. As of this morning, I was still the only SSer in the 5-day race. I'd even commented on that to a few people over the last few weeks - where were the other racers?
This really sucks.
Oh well ... just needed to vent a little. Not sure what my plan for the year will be now - this was obviously my biggest event of the year. I don't even want to think about it right now. I don't even know whether to keep that time for vacation or not ... goddamnit ...
I'd been wanting to do this race for so long, but my schedule at work just never permitted it. The timing was always terrible. But this year, I finally said screw it and blocked off my end-of-May calendar all the way back in December. I was so excited registering on New Year's Eve. I waited to see how many other SSers would join me in grabbing the early discount and was curious who I'd be racing with. But no one else registered in the SS class that night. Or any other. As of this morning, I was still the only SSer in the 5-day race. I'd even commented on that to a few people over the last few weeks - where were the other racers?
This really sucks.
Oh well ... just needed to vent a little. Not sure what my plan for the year will be now - this was obviously my biggest event of the year. I don't even want to think about it right now. I don't even know whether to keep that time for vacation or not ... goddamnit ...