RACING
The racing portion of the NAUCC 007 was excellent. MUDders had a hard
time last year bc of some bad weather, but this year, in add'n to the
great weather, there was also a pretty efficient team of volunteers. As
a result, riders were done with the 1500m (and 800 for the little kids)
and the 400m on Racing Day 1. Then today, we rode the 100m, and ALL of
the 'fun' races.
I didn't get results for most of the racing and track, so I'm not sure
what heights and lengths were posted for high- and long-jumps, but I
can tell you that Justin Woessner is pretty fast, and so are Nick
Muellerleile and Isaiah Leitz. Amy Shields won most, but not all, of
her races.
1500, 400, 100
The track is sluggish, a fact borne out by the slower-than-usual
winning times. For example, the 1500m race went to Justin, but his time
was only 4:43 or so -- quite far from the expected 4:30. In the 400m,
the top 5 finishers in the expert were:
1:07.170...Justin
1:09.455...Jeff Groves
1:09.499...Isaiah
1:09.920...me
1:10.194...John Foss
As you can see, it was a hotly contested 2nd place -- four of us within
less than .7 seconds! That's less than 10 feet!
The 100m went to Nick, I believe, and again, his time was pretty slow
for a first-place finish. This was not a record-setting track. The only
personal best I set was for the slow race!
MISC
Tomorrow is the 10k, and I'm looking forward to taking that one, tho
Gilby will be fighting me for it. Fun fact: He's gotten lost during the
past TWO 10k races (winning one of them!). The 10k and muni tom'w are
right near a water park! Awesome! It was also nice how the race track
was in the same school as the main auditorium, so it was easy for all
of us to get used to just one set of directions so far (which changes
tom'w).
PUBLIC SHOW
I should mention that the public show was great. It featured a
fantastic frisbee exhibition as well as some incredible Hacky Sack
('foot bag'😉 work from the same dude. Sem and Teresa Abrams did their
usual amazing show, tho this time Sem finished by riding his 14' (we
all thought it was 20'!). He's incredible. The MCs were jugglers and
were quite funny. The raffle went fast... well, as fast as I could get
it to go. Darren Bedford won the top prize! The top 5 or 6 prizes were
all donated by our friends the Drummonds at unicycle.com.
FUN
Speaking of which: another funny moment was in the relay race today
when John Drummond had to hand off not only the baton but also his
unicycle to his eldest son, who was running second leg in the race --
they only had one uni between them! As you may know, the relay race is
not really too serious! The last team to finish was comprised of my son
(7), a boy named Austin, and two kids under 6 (GracieLu and Gregory).
The little ones were adorable.
TRIALS
I didn't participate in trials or muni, but the trials area looked
great, featuring many cool apparatus including a car.
Well, it's off to (late!) bed. So far, a great NAUCC!
--
David_Stone
Dictator for Life,
NYUC
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