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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Subject: Re: RAAM
Message-ID: <764@opus.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Sep-84 02:23:17 EDT
Article-I.D.: opus.764
Posted: Fri Sep  7 02:23:17 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 3-Sep-84 10:04:30 EDT
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>Re this race deliberately taking place "in the heat of the summer":
>
>Why? Are the supporters/organizers just trying to put the maximun
>strain on the participants? Why not have it in the Spring or Fall?
>(I could see avoiding spring rain, but the Fall, before snowfall
>in the Rockies causes problems, sounds like a much better time.
>For that matter, it could start in the West, so they get through 
>the Rockies as early as possible...

It IS fall.  It arrived here in Colorado 8/26.  I'm completely serious; our
weather has already shifted to the fall pattern and it did so last Sunday.
It snowed a little in the high country for the first time a little over a
week ago.  If RAAM actually cuts through the high Rockies, then the
organizers have pushed it about as far into the fall as they practically
can.
-- 
Dick Dunn	{hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd		(303)444-5710 x3086
   ...I'm not cynical - just experienced.