Monday, March 28, 2011

Summary of Ragnar Pre-meeting

UPDATED BASED ON NEW START TIME

Not everyone was there on Friday for our meeting so I thought it would be good to summarize the discussion.
At check in we need the following: 2 headlamps, 2 blinking rear lights, and six reflector safety vests.
LIGHTS
Van 1 has headlamps between Tom, Trevor, and Michael.  Trevor and Micheal also have rear lights.  That means Van 1 has all the lights needed.
Van 2 has headlamps between the Sloan's, Gredings and Amy.  James also has two rear blinking lights.  Van 2 has all the lights needed.
VESTS
Dave has five or six vests.  These vests will be taken to the Wrights the night before the race so that Van 1 can use them to check in.  Trevor and Michael both have their own light weight reflector vests that they said can be shared.  More than likely these vests will be worn more often in Van 1 than the ones Dave has, but we still need to check in with six.  James also has a light weight reflector vest that can be shared within Van 2.
High level timeline
Although this is already detailed on Tom's spreadsheet, here is a quick summary of the itinerary.
Van 1 
April 14th, Chad and Laura to pick up Van & Dave take vests to Wrights.
  1. April 15th, 4:30am-All van 1 participants meet at Wrights to depart to starting line in Huntington Beach.
  2. 6:30am-arrive at Huntington Beach for start of race and safety briefing.
  3. 7:15am-Nikki starts the race.  GO NIKKI!
  4. 11:00am (approximate)-Laura completes her first run @ Exchange 6: City of Anaheim Softball fields and Van 1 can rest.  Currently, there is no rest stop arranged after this first set of legs.
  5. 5:00pm (approximate)-Nikki begins her second leg at Exchange 12-Lake Elsinore Campground.
  6. 10:30pm (approximate)-Laura completes her second run @ Exchange 18: Johnson Field in Fallbrook.  Shower, crash, etc at John Stewart's aunt in Carlsbad.
  7. April 16th, 3:30am (approximate)-Nikki begins her final leg @ Exchange 24-Taylor Made Golf in Carlsbad, CA. 
  8. 8:00am (approximate)-Laura completes her final run @ Exchange 30-Torrey Pines, La Jolla, then rest, shower, etc at Nikki's mom's house.
  9. 2:30pm (approximate)-Wade leads the entire team across the finish line @ Exchange 36-Silver Strand State Beach Park, Coronado
Van 2
  1. April 15th, 7:00am-James and AnneMarie depart Moorpark to pick up van.
  2. 7:45am-Rest of Van 2 departs Moorpark.
  3. 9:15am-Van 2 meets/departs Executive Van Rentals 9142 S. Sepulveda Blvd Los Angeles 310-338-9788
  4. 10:15am (approximate)-Van 2 arrives @ Exchange 6: City of Anaheim Softball fields for safety briefing.
  5. 11:00am (approximate)-Dave starts his first run @ Exchange 6: City of Anaheim Softball fields.
  6. 5:00pm (approximate)-Wade ends his first run at Exchange 12-Lake Elsinore Campground.  Van 2 rest, shower, etc at Tom's cousin's house:  Sarah and Rex Warner (39855 South Creek Circle, Murrieta, CA 92563)
  7. 10:30pm (approximate)-Dave starts his second run @ Exchange 18: Johnson Field in Fallbrook. 
  8. 3:00am (approximate)-Wade finishes his second leg @ Exchange 24-Taylor Made Golf in Carlsbad, CA. Van 2 rests, showers, etc at Amy's sister's house Carol Waddell 4555 sunset Bluffs Way San Diego, CA 92130
  9. 8:00am (approximate)-Dave starts his final run @ Exchange 30-Torrey Pines, La Jolla.
  10. 2:30pm (approximate)-Wade leads the entire team across the finish line @ Exchange 36-Silver Strand State Beach Park, Coronado
Accompanying with Bike
We never did discuss the possibility of accompanying some of our female runners with a bike at night.  Those would be the following: Laura 10:30pm, Amy 12:50am, Rebecca 1:12am, AnneMarie 2:13am, and Nikki 3:58am.  We'll need a mountain bike and a bike rack from someone.  Last year we used mine, but I can't do that very easily this year.

5 comments:

  1. Gredings have a bike rack and mountain bike.

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  2. Wow, James, you took good notes! As far as my night run...I just bought some pepper spray. If the bike buddy thing doesn't happen, I am happy to share my spray!

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  3. on item #9 for van 2 you forgot to mention, before David starts his run, he vomits all over van 1

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  4. Fantastic summary, James. Thanks.

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  5. I don't need someone to ride with me. Pretty sure if there is someone on a bike next to me, I may push them over and take it for myself... just sayin

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