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Written by Josh Forester
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Monday, 07 June 2010 16:03 |
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So I've been racing the last 2 weekends, which pretty much has frozen all my Atomic follow-ups in time. Now I'm slowly but surely getting back into my todo list, which is dwindling, albeit not as quickly as I would hope. Nevertheless, the detailed results, with leg splits, etc, are coming. I've gotta get all these stinking logbooks and checkpoints out of my bedroom and back in the basement! |
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Written by Josh Forester
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Wednesday, 26 May 2010 15:20 |
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 For those interested in photographs of the 2010 Atomic Adventure Race presented by Fuji Bikes, please check them out here:
http://megrobertsgalleries.com
You guys can purchase individual photos or batches for a nominal fee from her. Thanks to Megan spending her time out there, you guys have something to mark the memory!
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 26 May 2010 15:57 |
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Written by Josh Forester
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Monday, 24 May 2010 21:18 |
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As promised, it was close. Team Florida has ousted Team Georgia by 2 points! I blame Team Flight, who if it weren't for the two Floridian sabateurs (JJ and May-Li) sent to slow down Georgian Charles Oswald, could have raced 15 minutes faster (beating out Vignette and Adventure Racing South A & B for the 1 point win over Team Florida). Nevertheless, Team Georgia will no doubt return in 2011 and have its vengeance!
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GA Rank |
GA Score |
FL Rank |
FL Score |
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Checkpoint Zero |
08:07 |
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WEDALI |
08:11 |
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ATP/CP0 |
08:26 |
2 |
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| 4 |
ImONPoint.org-Odyssey Adventure Racing |
08:54 |
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| 5 |
Green Paw Adventure Sports |
11:15 |
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5 |
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Intel Outside |
11:39 |
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| 7 |
Layer 3 |
12:12 |
3 |
7 |
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| 8 |
SCARredforlife |
12:17 |
4 |
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| 9 |
Pangea Adventure Racing |
12:23 |
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2 |
9 |
| 10 |
Adventure Racing South B |
13:02 |
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| 10 |
Adventure Racing South A |
13:02 |
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| 12 |
Vignette |
13:14 |
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Team Flight |
13:16 |
5 |
13 |
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| 14 |
Arms Raised in a V |
13:27 |
6 |
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| 15 |
spiritual endurance |
13:32 |
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| 16 |
God Hates A Coward |
13:55 |
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| 17 |
Tabula Rasa |
14:14 |
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| 18 |
Appalachian AR |
14:25 |
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| 19 |
Florida Xtreme 2 |
14:57 |
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19 |
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Team GLR |
15:51 |
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| 21 |
Kickapoo |
17:32 |
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21 |
| 22 |
Bikes Plus |
22:16 |
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| 23 |
Trakkers |
22:25 |
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| 24 |
Bottoms Up |
23:15 |
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24 |
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Sport Factory |
24:50 |
7 |
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AR Militia |
25:57 |
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6 |
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| 27 |
Rogue |
26:00 |
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Team Juggernaut |
30:06 |
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| 29 |
Applied Vitals |
30:20 |
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| 30 |
Currahee |
30:25 |
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| 31 |
GoBushwhack.com |
31:11 |
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Florida Xtreme 1 |
32:57 |
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Felix Navidad |
33:01 |
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Team Jackass |
34:07 |
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2 Old Guys |
43:47 |
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This is Gonna Hurt |
65:21 |
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Total Scores |
GA: |
80 |
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78 |
Now, as to my predictions, I got 4 out of 5 top 5 picks for each of the states, I said it was gonna be close and boy was it ever, Georgia's 9th was well behind Florida's 5th contributing to their win. I was wrong in that Florida's 2nd did NOT beat Georgia's 3rd (despite Georgian team Layer 3 having to carry around the Atomic AR Trophy); but hey, there was an 11 minute difference
between the two, so it could've gone either way. So I'd say I did pretty well, but not as well as the Floridians!
Summary: Team Georgia just got served.
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Last Updated on Monday, 24 May 2010 21:38 |
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Written by Josh Forester
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Thursday, 13 May 2010 14:51 |
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As of today, my wife has been pregnant with our fourth child for 37 weeks and 3 days. Yep, our first full term pregnancy. It's been long joked that our new baby girl, Chance, will be delivered on this weekend. Considering our previous terms of 36 weeks and two at 33 weeks, I didn't give much credence to this.
Until about two weeks ago, when it seemed more like a possibility. So at this year's race, we started planning around the additional challenges created by my not being there. The Race Management team (my teammates on Team ROC Gear/4LPH4 1337) have stepped up in huge ways to duplicate my role. Jack and I (co-race directors last year and this year) have shared as much as possible the responsibilities of Race Director, while preserving the same roles as last year.
As of today, my wife is showing additional signs of early labor. We will see when Chance comes, but in the event I am unable to attend the race, say hello to my team and thank them for their continuing efforts to grow the sport in innovative ways. |
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Last Updated on Thursday, 13 May 2010 14:56 |
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Written by Josh Forester
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Thursday, 13 May 2010 12:40 |
Live Coverage Website:
http://www.RDBoard.com
After the race begins, a link will appear both on the race website and the RDBoard.com home page to the Atomic AR RDBoard.
Rank on the RDBoard Leaderboard will be displayed on the Leaderboard top to bottom. The team who gets all of the checkpoints in the least amount of time with the full team intact wins. Teams that miss/skip checkpoints will be assessed time penalties. Because this is a stage race, teams will be ranked according to their total time. After the ROC Gear Stage (Stage 1), teams will be assessed a penalty proportional to the amount of time behind the lead team. All teams will restart together at the beginning of the Reality Bikes Stage (Stage 2). So a 2nd place team after the ROC Gear Stage who is 10 minutes behind the 1st place team will have time added to their total time, since they restart all together at midnight (Saturday, 15th Night/Sunday 16th Morning).
Here are some of the menu items:
* Events shows various events covered by RDBoard, including the Atomic Adventure Race.
* Leaderboard is the live tabular view of the race and each team's progress. The right-side "Leaderboard Updates" panel is an automatically-reloading panel that polls to see if there have been any updates to the leaderboard and what the effect was on team ranking. The bottom "Live Chat" panel allows for viewers to interact with Race Management during the race by posting live comments. There are 3 tabs to the Leaderboard:
1. Leaderboard - shows data about the teams and their progress throughout the course. Details about the Teams and their status/stats, the Control Points and their locations and viewpoints from their locations, and time of arrival times/departure times/penalties associated with teams' visits to checkpoints. Click around to expand the panels.
2. Course Description - An overview of the course. It will have all the maps that teams will be plotting and following. Thus, you'll see the cheat sheet, race-director view of the course.
3. Legend - An explanation of icons used throughout the software.
* Course Map shows a more Control Point-centric view of the race. The right-side "View CP Details" panel that offers a summary view of the Control Points and allows one to see a more detailed view of a Control Point by clicking in it. The bottom "Live Chat" panel functions the same as with the Leaderboard menu item above. There are 3 tabs to the Course Menu:
1. Course Map - A Google Maps implementation showing all control points, the teams that have reached them, and the teams that haven't. Allows for terrain, street, satellite, Google earth, and even a Mytopo.com topographical view of the course.
2. Course Description - Same as above, here as well for convenience.
3. Legend - Same as above, here as well for convenience.
* Updates is an aggregation point for all of the race updates. There are 6 tabs in race updates:
1. All Feeds - This shows all the below, sorted by date. It also includes blogs from the race website.
2. Blogs - This shows textual updates to the race.
3. Photos - This shows photographs uploaded from the field.
4. Videos - This shows videos uploaded from the field.
5. Audio - This will show audio blogs, interviews, and audio from-team-to-fan/family shout-outs.
6. Leaderboard - This is similar to the right-side "Leaderboard Updates" panel in the Leaderboard view above, but it shows a longer history.
* Competitor Map has a view of where all the teams are from.
If for any reason, the RDBoard website is down or functioning improperly, folks interested may fall back to the following RSS feed to provide race coverage:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtomicAdventureRaceFeedMix
Most browsers will display it as a webpage, but if they do not applications like Google Reader will. Go ahead and try the feed out now to make sure you are good to go.
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