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Practice times for Beacon

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SVT-Lightning
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No need to get up at the crack of dawn!

Practice:
Saturday: (times may vary due to XC racing finish times)
Beginner/Sport practice 3pm-5pm
Expert/Pro practice 5pm-7pm
Sunday 8:00am – 9:30am all categories
Racing:
Sunday. Racing begins at 10 am.
 
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MUTOLI

Air Monkey
Mar 14, 2004
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Certified Drunk said:
No need to get up at the crack of dawn!

Practice:
Saturday: (times may vary due to XC racing finish times)
Beginner/Sport practice 3pm-5pm
Expert/Pro practice 5pm-7pm
Sunday 8:00am – 9:30am all categories
Racing:
Sunday. Racing begins at 10 am.
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Unless you are doing the Race Clinic!!! :) registration(for the clinic) isn't until 11am. We are driving over tonight so we get to sleep in!!!
 
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oly

skin cooker for the hive
Dec 6, 2001
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you can always hike as long as you dont go blowing a beginner off the course. Eric didnt have any problems with hikers, they are just trying to cut down on the huge line problem. Either way if you dont hike its all a wash......
 
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Turbo Monkey
Feb 20, 2003
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oly said:
you can always hike as long as you dont go blowing a beginner off the course. Eric didnt have any problems with hikers, they are just trying to cut down on the huge line problem. Either way if you dont hike its all a wash......
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So I, as a beg. can still pratice 5-7 as long as I hike up?
 
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Air Monkey
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Snacks said:
So I, as a beg. can still pratice 5-7 as long as I hike up?
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If you are doing the Clinic, you have the advantage of hitting the course way before 3...You will get it from 12-5!! :blah:
 
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Dec 15, 2004
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MUTOLI said:
If you are doing the Clinic, you have the advantage of hitting the course way before 3...You will get it from 12-5!! :blah:
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Okay, so let me get this straight. They could'nt have DH practice when it was originally scheduled (which would've given everybody 2 more hours of track time) cause of XC conflicts, but they can have 22 DHers in a clinic ride the course with no XC-DH conflicts? Hmmmmm.
 
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Secret Squirrel

There is no Justice!
Dec 21, 2004
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two1 said:
Okay, so let me get this straight. They could'nt have DH practice when it was originally scheduled (which would've given everybody 2 more hours of track time) cause of XC conflicts, but they can have 22 DHers in a clinic ride the course with no XC-DH conflicts? Hmmmmm.
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That struck me as a little odd as well......hmm....maybe I'll show up early and just hike and ride setions that aren't being used by the XC guys....(and gals).....hmmmm......it'll be called "The One Guy On His Huge Ass Bike That Don't Care Clinic"....yeah, that's it!!
 
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two1 said:
Okay, so let me get this straight. They could'nt have DH practice when it was originally scheduled (which would've given everybody 2 more hours of track time) cause of XC conflicts, but they can have 22 DHers in a clinic ride the course with no XC-DH conflicts? Hmmmmm.
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I'm not sure what you mean by "originally scheduled", but the clinic does have to be aware of the xc riders and stay out of there way. There was no xc race at the last Beacon race...that is why we had so much practice time.
 
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Snacks

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Feb 20, 2003
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MUTOLI said:
If you are doing the Clinic, you have the advantage of hitting the course way before 3...You will get it from 12-5!! :blah:
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Hey Joy! I'm not going to be able to do the clinic tomorrow. Kevin doesn't want to leave that early in the morning :mad:

Hey did you get your part?
 
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Air Monkey
Mar 14, 2004
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fyi-
for those of you who didn't do the clinic, we only did one run...the clinic is mostly about starting at the top, and stopping at certain sections and sessioning it until we got to the bottom. It wasn't about getting as many runs in as possible before practice started! Does this help?
 
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Snacks said:
Hey Joy! I'm not going to be able to do the clinic tomorrow. Kevin doesn't want to leave that early in the morning :mad:

Hey did you get your part?
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Alright.
Yes, I got the part yesterday...thankfully!
 
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Dec 15, 2004
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MUTOLI said:
I'm not sure what you mean by "originally scheduled", but the clinic does have to be aware of the xc riders and stay out of there way. There was no xc race at the last Beacon race...that is why we had so much practice time.
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I'm not positive, but I swear I remember seeing a practice schedule that said 12-2 beg, sport 2-4 ex,pro 4-6 open. Are the xcers actually riding parts of the DH? If not it seems weird that they would'nt just have course marshalls where the courses might cross eachother. Anyway I just remembered why I never really liked WIM events.
 
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Feb 20, 2003
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MUTOLI said:
fyi-
for those of you who didn't do the clinic, we only did one run...the clinic is mostly about starting at the top, and stopping at certain sections and sessioning it until we got to the bottom. It wasn't about getting as many runs in as possible before practice started! Does this help?
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Damn! :mumble:
 
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Air Monkey
Mar 14, 2004
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two1 said:
I'm not positive, but I swear I remember seeing a practice schedule that said 12-2 beg, sport 2-4 ex,pro 4-6 open. Are the xcers actually riding parts of the DH? If not it seems weird that they would'nt just have course marshalls where the courses might cross eachother. Anyway I just remembered why I never really liked WIM events.
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That was the schedule for the Blastoff. But, there wasn't xc which is what causes the problem of starting late. I think it sucks too! I guess they (xc racers) come down part of the road, which is the problem since we (dh's) shuttle up to the top. I'm sure by next year, they won't do DH anymore...just XC! :(
 
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Dec 15, 2004
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MUTOLI said:
That was the schedule for the Blastoff. But, there wasn't xc which is what causes the problem of starting late. I think it sucks too! I guess they (xc racers) come down part of the road, which is the problem since we (dh's) shuttle up to the top. I'm sure by next year, they won't do DH anymore...just XC! :(
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I think your right. Oh well, more motivation for someone to try and show'em how its supposed to be done on the west side!!
 
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