Here are a few last minute important instructions for the Hinson lake 24 Hour Ultra Classic. PARKING: There is only 40-50 parking spaces available on the Rotary Lodge side. I am asking that we limit this parking lot to only those runners who are making a serious attempt at a 24 hour run. I am in no way minimizing any other runners efforts. Every runner will be treated like they are the greatest runner on the planet. I need everyone who is not on the parking list to please park on the Crow Run parking side. I will not police the parking. I am asking for everyone's help on this. I think the worst thing a race director can do is order runners around. I feel this makes people feel un welcomed and I definitely do not want that. We will have plenty of room along the dam past the start/finish area to set up mini base camps for support. We also have use of the Rotary Lodge porch this year which can be used for runners. If we all work together this we be another spectacular 24 hour event. The list is available to see from the main page. LAP COUNTS: We will once again count your laps and tally your mileage for you. We do ask that if you run across the start/finish line in a group of runners say larger than 4-5 runners that you please take the time to slow down and make sure that we count your lap. The rules are simple. When you run by the scoring table please call out your race number and make sure that we acknowledge you. We will tell you we got you and also tell you your lap number. It's a pretty simple process but it seems to work really well. If you have any problems with the number of laps that we tell you you have run. It needs to be addressed immediately. We are very accurate in our counting but occasionally mistakes are made and we depend on you for help in taking care of each and every lap. MY HELP: Once again I have recruited my in laws to help me run this event. Please be very kind to these people so I can continue to stay in the family. They let me hang around for some reason and I really like them. We will do everything we can to make your 24 hour experience be as enjoyable as possible. Let us know during the event if we can get anything for you. We will even drive to the store to pick up your secret formula that maybe you ran out of. Of course if we do that we now know your secret formula. MENU: We will have water, gator aid, coke, mountain dew, ginger ale, and coffee for fluids For food we will have donuts, cereal, crackers of all kinds, cookies of different varieties, chips, pretzels, peanuts, almonds, cashews, m&m's, gummy bears, twizzlers, fig newtons, hard candy, mints, candy corn (YUM), skittles, and much more. We also will be serving chicken, (Skinless of course) Chicken noodle soup, a little bit of turkey, and pizza later in the day. Oh yeah and potatoes of course all day. We will also be making random burger runs. Oh Yeah again. Of course we have oranges, bananas, and dried fruit as well. RACE DETAIL QUESTIONS: Any questions during the event please direct to me. My help will be very busy taking care of each and every one of you. I will gladly answer any and all questions during the day. THANK YOU AND HAVE THE BEST 24 HOUR RUN EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!! TOM GABELL 910-895-9813 |