Well the 1st of 3 extend the season Crit races happened lastnite... I arrived from work at the park at about 4:45 to start setting up the course... I got the leaf blower from Jayson as I had received emails saying the course was littered in debris... I was thinking yeah whatever a few twigs here and there.. well I arrived to basically find the road looking like a hurricane had run through... great... fire up ye olde leaf blower and have at er!
Things were looking good until I got out ofthe final sweeping corner which leads to the normal finish line... right out of the apex I start blowing and see what appears to be a large stain on the road.. after making the mistake of walking on it, and almost parking my ass in it... I decided to wait and considered cancelling the race... my thoughts were I dont need anyone crashing here and then putting the blame on me being the organizer...
Well after actually cancelling the race, and after a few phone calls, we decided to try and clean the mess up... Tim arrived with a I don't know how huge litre jug of degreaser which was promptly dumped on the spots, and then brushed like crazy... we decided to use the leaf blower now to dry the spots... of course the blower was out of gas, so now another adventure to go find 50:1 engine oil for the blower to mix with the gas... down the street to Shell... who (in)conveniently dont have any... so whip over to Crappy Tire by Polo Park... yoink! Some gas, some mix, and lets go blow dry the corner... After about 15 minutes of drying, it was a doable corner (with a few pylons added in just for safety factor)
Since I am on an easy week, and my aim on a personal best time at the ITT this weekend I decided to just marshall the course... it looked like a pretty quick race, and Don The Hammer Sawatzky won the race.. good work bud.. for those that don't know Don, he has one speed.. GO!
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