FLCC> TNR (winter version)

[Brian Lawney]

I was going to suggest we avoid the downhill in the woods since we don't
want that many people sliding all the snow off.  I guess that's not part of
the cx course anyway...

Other than meeting on the hill in the backfield (unlikely unless the one
person is VERY slow in comparison), I don't foresee too many places where a
tag zone would be too difficult.  I guess we'll find out!

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Peter Ozolins <peter at peterozolins.com>wrote:

> Oh, call it RNR
> where R = thursday
>
> /peter
>
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Brian Lawney <brianlawney at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> T=Thursday!
>>
>> There had been some discussion of this prior, but we're going to make it
>> official (with Glenn's blessing of course)...
>>
>> To quell the racing urge, let's having some informal "fast skiing" at the
>> Swandrome as part of the Thursday night ski-fest.  The idea is as follows:
>>
>> The main event will be a two-man out-and-back relay.  After a short time
>> trial, we will seed participants in a first-to-last fashion (e.g. with 8
>> racers, #1 and #8 are a team, #2 & #7, etc).
>> With our teams organized, each teammate will ski opposite directions on
>> the same course, so they will eventually meet each other.  Upon reaching
>> your teammate, you each reverse direction and ski back to where you
>> started.  Your time is marked when BOTH team members have returned.  In this
>> way, the teams are slightly more matched.
>>
>> As it turns out, if you ski at constant speeds for the whole race, your
>> total time is a function of the sum of each team member's speeds
>> (t=2d/(v_1+v_2)) where d is the course length.  Thus, pairing the fastest
>> and slowest will help us make those denominators roughly the same for each
>> team!
>>
>> The key for this will be to not interrupt those who wish to ski around
>> casually, and also to be careful when turning around to avoid collisions.
>>
>> Shall we say *6pm* to coalesce and begin our seeding TT's?
>>
>> Brian
>>
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