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Tom Held
Lu
RE: RESTAURANTS - Restaurant that I miss the most is Charlie's Burger Barn. Loved their french fries.....different crispiness than other fast food places. Owned by same people who owned Charlie's New Cafe, which evolved into Charlie's Smorgasbord.
RE: MYSTERY PHONE # - Only one of our classmates will know this number. Let's see how long it takes for them to notice it.
RE: TU 2 and EA 4 - Simple...look at the buttons on your cellphone. 8(TUV)........3(DEF) and 2(ABC). Get it ?
RE: HOW DOES ONE WIN A WOODS RACE - Well, listen up........there ain't no easy two sentence answer !!
First their are two different types of woods racing.
(1) Hare scrambles, which is what they did at last weekend's GNCC event at Kathy's beloved Morgantown, NC.....and then there is (2) Enduro.
HARE SCRAMBLES - Simple ! Start is mass start by class. One class every minute. Winner is whoever is ahead at end of three hour time limit. Pretty simple, uh ?
ENDURO - Well, not so easy to explain, but I'll give it a try. BE PATIENT !
Enduros are usually 100 - 150 miles long, and are run on an open course, never riding the same trail twice.
Riders start 4 to a row...one row each minute. Example: Start Time 8:00am. Row 1 starts at 8:01. For these riders, row 1 is said to be your minute. Number designations on bike's number plate for row #1 would be 11, 21, 31 and 41. (1st rider, row 1...and so on.) A common number of entries for an AMA National Enduro is 400 -600 riders.
The objective is to average a predetermined mile per hour average over the entire 100+ miles (usually 24 mph). There are hidden checkpoints throughout the course (usually 8 - 10 checkpoints). Figuring using a 24 mph average, it's easy to calculate what time the rider has to arrive at the checkpoint on time or "within his minute".
Example: Tom starts enduro at 8:06am (row #6). Let's say, the first checkpoint is at the 24 mile mark of the course, although Tom doesn't know this. Therefore, if Tom is averaging 24mph...he will arrive at checkpoint #1 at 9:06am (within his minute). If he does so, he zeros the check (another enduro term).
Now let's say that Tom stayed up late the night before and is tired and unable to ride fast, he might be late getting to checkpoint #1. In that case, Tom will be accessed one point for each minute he is late arriving at the checkpoint (enduro term...Tom "dropped a point").
But let's say Tom got plenty of sleep the night before, drank a Red Bull when he woke up and he his blasting through the woods at break-neck speed and arrives at the checkpoint a minute early. Good, uh ? Nope ! For each minute Tom arrives early, he drops 2 points.
At the end of the day, scores are figured and the rider who dropped the least number of points is the winner. Ties are broken by scoring at special checkpoints that time to the exact second of rider's arrival. Simple, uh ? Well, I guess maybe not ! LOL
Common misconception about enduros - "Anyone can go out and ride 24 mph on a motorcycle !"
OK...try it sometime ! To stay on time in a long, tight woods section, you have to go as hard as possible. Bangin' and bouncin' off of trees is indicitive of tight sections. Black Coal National Enduro was notorious for long 20-25 mile tight woods sections that could put you behind as much as 50-60 minutes. That means when you hit an easy section (open feild, 2-track dirt road) you have to run top speeds to make up time. Kinda scary, sometimes.
There you have it Lu. So, you wanna go with me next year to meet Kathy and Dick at Morgantown, NC GNCC ??? Party at Kathy's house !!!
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