[ORRando] ORRando Digest, Vol 41, Issue 1

Thu Oct 2 22:04:30 PDT 2008

Subject- Ride report on Sept NW 600K's
A late report on the Windy Ridge and Desert River 600K's
http://smortegav.blogspot.com/2008/09/tale-of-two-600ks-mas-o-menos.html
Sal

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>   1. Furnace Creek 508 (Del Scharffenberg)
>   2. Frans Pauwels Memorial Center (Del Scharffenberg)
>   3. Goldrush & Last Chance 1200 Interest lists (Susan France)
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> Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 13:17:26 -0700
> From: "Del Scharffenberg" <dels at intersoftsystems.com>
> Subject: [ORRando] Furnace Creek 508
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> This weekend I will be riding my 5th Furnace Creek 508
> race.  The race starts at 7 am Saturday, October 4.
> Webcast and other information is at www.the508.com
>
> 100 solo riders were accepted last spring, but now the
> web site says there are 84 solo entrants.  Seven are over
> 60, but I am the oldest solo entrant at age 63 this year.
> This is the 25th anniversary of the race.  In that time
> there have been only 10 different solo 60+ finishers and
> only 3 official finishers over the age of 62.  There are only
> 17 Oregon finishers listed.  I was the 4th Oregonian to
> finish (1996) and still the only one with multiple finishes.
>
> Four Oregon entrants this year:
> Alex Kohan, "Kakakpo", hoping to become the youngest
> recumbent finisher ever.  Youngest solo entrant this year.
> Nelson Snyder, "Spider Monkey" going for his 2nd finish.
> Del Scharffenberg, "Spider" going for his 5th finish.  Oldest
> solo entrant this year.
> Also Mark Newsome is on a 2-person team with a Californian.
>
> My goals?  Finish for my 5th time.  Only 8 riders have 5 or
> more solo finishes.  Get done before dark Sunday (36 hrs).
> My only daytime finish was my first ride 12 years ago.  Try
> to finish closer to Flamingo and Donkey, the first two 60+
> riders the last two years.  Finfrock set a remarkable 60+
> record of 32:10 last year, a PR for him on his 8th finish!
> Donkey David Jones set a new RAAM 60+ record a few
> months ago.  Formidable competition in my age category!
>
> The current weather forecast shows highs only in the 80's
> and lows in the 50's with a chance of thunderstorms.
> Weather is always a huge factor in completion percentages
> and finish times at Furnace Creek.
>
> My crew chief is Matt Liou, my nephew from Sacramento
> (cell 916-206-0480, but coverage is spotty).  We also
> recruited Karla Sandoval from an AdventureCorps bulletin
> board posting.  We will meet her Friday evening.
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> -- "Spider" Del
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> Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 17:00:34 -0700
> From: "Del Scharffenberg" <dels at intersoftsystems.com>
> Subject: [ORRando] Frans Pauwels Memorial Center
> To: "OrRando" <ORRando at orrandonneurs.org>
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> I regret that I will be out of town and will miss this grand opening
> event....
>
> The latest dream of the Washington County cycling community is scheduled to
> come true with the opening of Aloha's Frans Pauwels Memorial Community
> Bicycle Center.  The WashCo Bicycle Transportation Commission will cut the
> ribbon at 10 a.m. Friday, Oct. 3, at the leased warehouse at Tualatin Valley
> Highway and Cornelius Pass Road just east of Hillsboro.  Located at the Park
> 219 South business plaza at 21785 SW TV Highway, Suite J, the celebration
> will last through the weekend with hourly drawings for helmets, lights and
> other bicycle related equipment parts and accessories.
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>
> http://www.oregonlive.com/news/argus/index.ssf?/base/news/122158741387280.xml&coll=6
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> Frans was a very good friend of mine, who I rode with into his late 70's.
>  He was the former owner of Kissler's bike shop, later owned by his son Dirk
> who is my age.  When Dirk retired earlier this year he donated the remnants
> of his bike shop to start this community bicycle center, a very fitting
> tribute to Frans.  Frans was the only Grand Tour rider who I personally
> knew.  Here are a few links to his long-ago accomplishments:
>
> 20th place in the 1946 Vuelta:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1946_Vuelta_a_Espa?a
> 11th place in the 1947 Vuelta:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_Vuelta_a_Espa?a
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> 1948 and 1949 Tour de France:
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> http://www.tourdefrance.nl/achtergronden/nederlandsehelden/Frans-Pauwels-1476.html
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> Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 09:30:16 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
> From: Susan France <susanfrance at teleport.com>
> Subject: [ORRando] Goldrush & Last Chance 1200 Interest lists
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> You can put your name on the Goldrush "interested" list. This in no way
> commits you to the event. (Apparently Marcello found the list first!)
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> http://davisbikeclub.org/goldrush/application.htm
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> Last chance has a similar list:
> http://www.rmccrides.com/lastchance2009riders.htm
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> Susan.
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