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HYPERASHEL
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 Posted: 09/28/06 - 09:50 Post subject: calling an apple an orange
does not make it an orange.
due to budget issues and traffic concerns only the front runners of this weekends Athens to Atlanta competition will be allowed to floe thru red lights, stops signs and yield signs.
now this year i may not be at the front of the pack but i think that just blows, i paid my good money just like everyone else, stop the frikking cars for me too. if i wanted 87 miles of stopping i can do that here in town.
Stephanie tells me, "At least this year we can put the event on." and reminds me that this was how the first ones were done. my reply, " great let me go get my Quads (noraml style skates) then. slapping the same name on it but changing the style/rules does not make it the same event i started doing in '98."
when this race first started it was more a bet between drinking buddies and consisted of about 10 people, this year we are near 400 people not drinking, and moving a whole heck of a lot faster. i think the rule change will kill this event for sure.
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GaRebelRunner
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Posted: 09/28/06 - 10:45 Post subject:
I don't know what to tell you there. If the budget doesn't encompass enough police presence to hold up traffic for all the skaters, I don't know there is much anyone can really do. With some running events roads are not actually closed, although monitors will usually be at various intersections. Is it normal for a skating event to only hold up traffic for the front skaters?
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wanttorun100
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Posted: 09/29/06 - 09:25 Post subject:
here I thought this was going to be about gay 'marriage'
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RangerG
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Posted: 09/29/06 - 09:34 Post subject:
The whole thing puzzles me..
We have a lot of POW/MIA rides each year, and we NEVER have a problem with getting the roads shut down for us to pass.
We even have 4 police motorcycles for escorts supplied by our local POPO...and they jump at the chance!
All the local Police and Fire Police turn out to close side streets.
We also chose around 6 big, bad lookin dudes as outriders to block any side streets missed by the Police until we pass...
*shrug*
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megawill
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Posted: 09/29/06 - 09:58 Post subject:
| wanttorun100 wrote: | | here I thought this was going to be about gay 'marriage' |
if your post doesn't relate to the topic at hand please keep it to yourself...
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andydp
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Posted: 09/29/06 - 10:25 Post subject:
I have to go with Ranger. I'm certain cops would be available. I'll bet if it was for the PBA or police orphan's fund you'd get every cop in GA on the roads that day.
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MechEngDropout
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Posted: 09/29/06 - 17:19 Post subject:
| andydp wrote: | | I have to go with Ranger. I'm certain cops would be available. I'll bet if it was for the PBA or police orphan's fund you'd get every cop in GA on the roads that day. |
Absolutely. But we have to ask - seriously, and no offense hyper - how many people really care about a long skate? The amount of road closures around my area on LSU game days is infuriating. It's to the point where if I am out, I can't return home for hours. How is that fair? But that's for a multi-million dollar affair with 100,000+ people. Knock it down to 400 skaters and you wonder how the road would ever be closed.
It sucks that your event has changed, but it doesn't sound like the scale of the event can make it happen.
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GaRebelRunner
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Posted: 09/29/06 - 17:28 Post subject:
Or maybe the route needs to be altered. Athens to Atlanta depending on the route can be over very busy roadways. It also depends how slow you are talking about the back skaters being. Is there a time limit at which time skaters would be on their own as in running events?
I really can't imagine 400 skaters holding up traffic that long, even if they were slow. When I monitored the Ekiden relay last weekend we let vehicles pass between groups of runners, without stopping any of the runners.
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camelia bedelia
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Posted: 09/29/06 - 17:58 Post subject:
| megawill wrote: | | wanttorun100 wrote: | | here I thought this was going to be about gay 'marriage' |
if your post doesn't relate to the topic at hand please keep it to yourself... |
megawill is a moderator!?!?!?!?!? Ooooooo.....power is so sexy 
(sorry, off topic)
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HYPERASHEL
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Posted: 10/04/06 - 19:12 Post subject:
the road does not close at all for us, we get traffic controlled for us only at intersections. this year only the very major intersections had cops. granted, i also did not stop if i didn't see a need to, but i also had to slam on my brake hard after an azzhole pulled out of a store driveway right infront of me. for the sake of the race and race organizers i did not pound the car.
i really don't want the raod closed, it adds to the hardness of the event actually.
GaReb, most of the course before Dacula is pretty rural, then......it starts to pick up around New Hope Rd i think, we try to stay off the major roads but with residential build up htat's getting harder and harder. 
MED, no hard feelings, the reason i like my sport is because it's not mainstream.
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