A well run race, and thanks.

We had a great race this year. For the first time we actually had enough volunteers for things to go really smoothly. To the volunteers, I cannot thank you enough. It's only with the help of people in our community that we can put on a race of this scale. Jake and I'd like to especially thank my family, Cherie and Jerry, Sue and Brian, Tom and Linda, Preston, Logan, Mark and Brandon. These people have worked for years to help us pull this off, we are most grateful. We'd also like to thank the City of Northfield, it's street crews and law enforcement officers, The Bikery in Stillwater, Just Food Coop, Sean from On Support, Bruce from Split Second timing, the officials, and everyone else involved for their time and support. It's will all of this help that we are able to pull this off every year.

The race itself went very well indeed. We had a total of 250+ field of individual riders, and several classes had 60+ person fields! Even the judges commented on the large field sizes of those races. Race conditions were good most of the day. The morning started with broken clouds and light rain off and on. The water was just enough to make some races interesting, particularly the last turn onto the home straight. Thankfully there were no significant injuries for the day, though some people did go down. Thanks to our volunteer medic Heather, who patched people up nicely. The afternoon brought hotter temps and sun, which dried off the course for later fields nicely. Races for the day were very fast compared to last year, and racers put on a great show for on lookers. With ominous clouds and a change of wind, the last race was cut just one lap short by the officials. 2 min after the end of the race, it rained quite hard. Talk about timing! Take down was uneventful and went very smoothly. Before you knew it, it was like we were never there.

Afterward the crew ventured over to Dan and Linda's house for some necessary food and libations. We watched fireworks over the high school and went home late to comfortable beds. The day was great, and we look forward to doing it all again next year. Thanks again. We'll see you all on the fourth!