
Women
Well the 2009 Founders Lumberjack 100 has come and gone. The 5
th year anniversary was an interesting one. A cool spring could only mean one thing to me, it was about to change and it sure did. The week leading up to the race the weather pattern started to shift. 50's and 60's were replaced with high 70's and rain was becoming a daily occurrence. The rain was actually helping the dry sandy conditions but I sure had my fingers crossed because they were getting hammered with heavy rain south of us. In fact, almost to the day a huge storm hit the area just south of the race site with heavy rain and tornado's. Once again, just like 2008 the storm took out bridges, knocked out power and closed roads. Thankfully it wasn't Mason county this time!

Single Speed

Men
The night before the race it rained pretty good, from 2:30am until 7:00am we received about 3/4 of an inch, this we could live with! The
moto sweep reported the swamp to be dry and no trees down, just some annoying damp face slappers and some slick turns.
Once the race was off the heat began to pick up
literally and
figuratively. The temps climbed to the mid 80's and it was
humid. The racers were just as hot, in fact by days end, a record pace was set in each of the race classes!

Masters

Wolf
People seemed to enjoy the on-site awards and raffles and it sure made the volunteers lives easier. Plan on this version from now on, it was a winner.
There is some discussion of a 3 lap format next year. I have designed a loop that will work but it does contain about 3-4 miles of two track or forest roads. We would have to consider if we need an additional aid station or if racers can live with an aid station every 16.5 miles instead of every 8-16 miles. The inner outer loop transition would not exist in this configuration. Shoot me and email with your thoughts, we'll weigh them
carefully and decide before
registration in 2010.

Chis, Jeff and Lakeon
(how cool is it to race with the Pros and then hang out with them!?)
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Thanks for the continued support!
Rick and Cathy