[OrRando] Darts and Arrows and herding cats.

Susan France susanfrance at teleport.com
Sun Apr 9 10:17:01 PDT 2006



Now that Fleche NW has come to an end... except for the brunch... we have
been discussing adding a Fleche to our calendar next year. There are
actually some ex-randos in the area who like this event because it's a team
event...

BUT, maybe we should do a practice run of the event later this year in the
form of a RUSA Dart (12hr team event) and/or a RUSA Arrow (24 team event).
These events are similar to the ACP Fleche except they can be run on any
date and you receive RUSA credit. So we'd have to find a date where we can
slip this into the NW rando calendar. What I like about this is that folks
from Oly/Sea/Tac can ride south, folks from Eugene can ride north, and folks
from the Columbia region can buck the 40mph headwinds riding from the east
:-) Or maybe we all just end up in the mountains or on the coast
somewhere... or at the Grand Lodge. I tend to think staying in the I-5/I-84
corridor makes sense, so we can take advantage of public transportation to
get home, though one always has the option to drive to the start and create
a loop/outnback or to have a driver to get you all home. Maybe we run a Dart
and Arrow concurrently so your team chooses your time/distance.

What I like is that these are TEAM events and getting randos to act like
teams is sometimes like herding cats.

Thoughts???
Susan.

BTW, I don't think I've ever heard of any club in the US actually doing a
Dart or Arrow... but maybe Mark Thomas knows.



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