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Angie,

We are getting dark MUCH earlier than you at this latitude.  Sunrise is 7:35
and sunset is 6:30.

One of the beautiful memories I have of this trail is seeing the sparks
from the horse ahead of me on the climbs in the early pre-dawn as his shoes
strike the rocks.

Linda
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To: <johnt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 11:24 PM
Subject: Re: [RC] AERC Championship: 50 Mile Information


> Why are they starting the 50 in the dark? The weather's cool...plenty of
> time to finish...what's their motive? They could easily start at 7:30 and
> have 12 hrs. of daylight!
>
> Angie
>
> On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 20:01:21 -0700 John Teeter <johnt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> writes:
> > The AERC 50 Mile Championship ride will start at 5:00am EDT tomorrow
> > morning. The start will follow the same path as that used by the 100
> > Milers on Friday. There will be approximately 78 starters tomorrow
> > morning in the dark (sunrise is @7:30 tomorrow). There is a new
> > twist in the first (23 mile) phase of the ride. There will be a
> > "pulse&go" at the nine mile point (at Edinburg Gap) 9 miles into the
> > ride. All riders will have to reach pulse criteria (which I assume
> > is 64) before continuing on. It will be dark.
> >
> > Tom Sites is our man on the trail - he will be calling in info as
> > also crews for 3 riders. Anyone else, as usual, who hears anything
> > is welcome to pass it along!
> >
> > jt
> >
> >
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