Okay, so that is probably not fair. I understand too well what it is like to be an organizer of an under-supported cycling event. I heard about the fat bike race scheduled this morning in Driggs. The locals had built a fairly elaborate track with banks, berms, rollers, and tabletops for a snowmobile race that is scheduled for later in the day and agreed to host a fat bike race prior to the snowmobile races. I am pretty interested to race the fat bike and I do not think it would be that complicated to jump into a fat bike race with a cross country type format. But for something like this (kind of a snow crit/snow cross format) I thought it would be good to watch one first.
Most of us have more experience as participants in bicycle races and events than as spectators, but is big fun to be the spectator occasionally. So Dawn and I drove over to Driggs this morning pretty excited to watch a fat bike race. Three people showed up for the race and they rode four rather perfunctory 2 ½ minute laps. By the time Dawn got out of the car, the race was over. It looks like a fun format with a lot of promise, but it missed the target today.
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