I was assuming a 45k race as well (and actually hoping for just a 25k race) until Friday afternoon when a friend informed me that it was 46.5k. He got that distance from one of the Birkie foundation folks. Note that distance was still off by 0.2k. I didn't bonk but I was pretty wiped out by the finish (yet I somehow managed to set a new personal best by over 1 hour!). All my "hardcore" skiing buddies (i.e. friends that actually "train" for the Birkie and all in waves ahead of me) wanted to know what drugs I was taking since I beat most of them... I told them I'm going to write a new book explaining my ski training theory - don't train much and hope for really warm weather at the Birkie (seems to work for me).
Cheers, Craig P.S. I assume the Birkie Foundation knew several days in advance how long the race would be since they presumably had to move the finish line cabins into place... At 8:50 PM -0600 2/26/02, Scott Bachmeier wrote: >OK, I've heard similar things from enough other folks now to know >that it wasn't just me who was a bit surprised by the "extra length" >of the Birkie. You see, I thought it was a 45km race, so at 43km >I decided to use up what was left in the tank (which wasn't much)... >but that extra 1.7km they added was *really* tough for me. I bonked >pretty hard right at 45km, and then got a bad attitude when the >tracks all but disappeared the rest of the way. > >So my question is: were the rest of you surprised at the extra >distance at the end? When did they decide to make it 46.7km? >Should comments be directed to the Birkie Foundation, or should >we just have the attitude "what's a couple-a kilometres amongst >nordic friends?" -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Craig A. Heilman Bugaboo Software * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software Engineering & Consulting * * (608) 274-2003 http://www.bugsoft.com/ * ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ http://www.MadNorSki.org/ XC mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/xc
