[OrRando] Darts and Arrows and herding cats.

paul johnson pjinoly at msn.com
Sun Apr 9 17:12:10 PDT 2006


I'm up for that!  I think the Fleche is the most fun rando event, it could 
have to do with my love of  arcane, obscure, 
hard-to-remember-much-less-figure-out, rules.  But it more likely has to do 
with the team aspect.  I am lucky to have ridden on some great teams both to 
the FNW and the Canadian Fleche (Pacifique?).  it would be great to be able 
to start from home and end up somewhere in Ore for a Fleche.

In the last few years of my "STP period" a group of us used to ride that 
event and then stay at the Kennedy school!  Something about bedding down in 
Mrs. Wilsons 4th grade classroom was really, well, educational? Plus they 
have that long tiled cattle trough they call the soaking pool.  Well I'll 
leave the end point to y'all, but it would be great to rendezvous south.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Susan France" <susanfrance at teleport.com>
To: "Orrando" <orrando at tire.patch.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 10:17 AM
Subject: [OrRando] Darts and Arrows and herding cats.


>
>
> 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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