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Wednesday, May 26, 2004
This weekend's races
This weekend I'll be running the North American O' Champs (M40) near Cleveland, Ohio. It should be fun.
I took a look at the event web page today.
The start list shows only 205 people. That's not many. Too bad.
My course, red (M40) has a lot of controls. The first day's course is 6.8 km with 25 controls. The second day's course is 7.5 km with 25 controls. It doesn't look like we're going to have many long legs.
The start list has a few interesting names. Ted de St Croix is entered, but it doesn't say what course he is running. I hope he's running M40 (I think that is his class). But, he may be running M21. I think he may be the current Canadian M21 champ. The Norwegian star, Holger Hott Johansen is running. His wife, Sandy, is also running. She's Canadian and I suspect that she's got to run this race in order for the Canadian selectors to put her on the WOC team (I think I've heard that Canada is using the North American Champs as a WOC selection).