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Sunday, November 29, 2009

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

So...

The Chippewa Moraine 50K has been cancelled. That changes a lot of things, including the UMTR championship race for 2010 and my goals for next year. It's early, but I have to make a schedule for the Fab 5 races for next year. I probably will miss something, so let me know what 50K and 50 Mile races are being held in Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa and the upper peninsula of Michigan - and which ones you'd like to do, if you plan on being in the series.

Hey, the blog's back to its original purpose!

7 comments:

SteveQ said...

The Marquette 50K and 50 Mile will probably get added. Dances With Dirt and North Face races probably won't.

SteveQ said...

And the John Dick and Tuscobia are definitely out.

Kel said...

Glad to hear that you will most likely add Marquette since Michigan is supposedly part of the UMTR and hasn't been represented at a race yet :)

Very sad to see Chippewa go as it was a first class event :(

Question: will the Fab Five Fifties be limited to a certain number of races, or will you keep adding?

Surf the Murph 50K/50 Mile is a nice race, and Les mentioned that he would be having it a week earlier next year (which would be a week after Wild Duluth if Andy keeps that one where it is).

SteveQ said...

Kel, I'm trying to keep the number of events steady, or the "shoot the moon" option will become impossible. I'd like to add Surf the Murph, but it got lost in the shuffle with several races at the same time; it also has the problem of being yet another local race.

nwgdc said...

What happened to Chippewa?!?!

sea legs girl said...

Yeah, I'm with nwgdc. What DID happen to Chippewa?

theueckers said...

The Leanhorse Ultra near Hot Springs, SD is near the end of August each year.