Posted by arinewman on 5/8/2007 on arinewman's blogI guess the 3 straight days of rain waterlogged my brain, because I missed the registration cut-off for the crit by 2 minutes. As I was getting ready to pack up the car and drive from Boulder to Louisville last Sunday for the Louisville Crit I decided at the last minute to do my warm up en-route and ride out there. My race started at 10:30, and by the time I got there (10:20) they had closed registration and wouldn't give me a number.
That sucked. I felt like crap on the bike the day before, but was feeling pretty solid on the way out so I was really bummed to miss the start. I don't have a ton of races under my belt, but I had never heard of registration cut-offs like that. Lesson learned.
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whitey says:
Cut off times are common but usually they will let you try to fill out the paper work and pin on your numbers in time. I'm surprised, but like you said, lesson learned.
Sean Weide says:
The issue is where do you cut it off? Do you let people who drive up as the race is getting staged run over and say, "hang on, I'm in this race" and then hold up the race.
It's really an issue of race management. Races typically are spaced tightly and, with the officials needing start lists and time to check numbers, things have to be kept on time.
Learn from the pros: They always show up at least 90 minutes before race time.
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