California Bicycle Racing (CBR)

I moved the registration cuz all 4 of my barricades were bolt-cutted from the lightpost, so I had to play traffic guy and turn away all of the non-racers in Area III. All in all, it was a decent ride and decent turnout for a 4pm race start. There are a couple things I will address...

1. Racers turned away after 4pm: if anyone bothers to read the 2009 Eldo flyer, it says that start times are approximate and that if there are any questions, to call me. If you called and got my voice mail, it says that voice mail will take a week to respond while texting is within 24 hours. My last 2 email bursts highlighted the fact that Eldo will start at 4pm on March 3rd; furthermore, it was on the front page of the website cuz I don't have time to update race flyers with minutia (hence the word "approximate" and to call with questions. I know people were upset when turned away, but racers need to take an active role in acquiring recently-updated information. I hafta take my cue from Eldo Parks & Rec-it's not like I chose to start at 4pm.

2. New Eldo rule for groups that are passed by other groups. I'm going to nip this in the bud immediately for 2009. If a group, for example-the masters, are passed by the cat. 4-5 group, then the masters will not be allowed to pass the 4-5 group for the duration of the race. Should they decide not to heed this rule & try to pass them, then all of the points will be forfeited that day. I'm not gonna have one group getting all ego-hurt because they got passed and then work like heck to pass them...they should have worked harder not to be passed in the first place, especially by a bunch of cat. 5s.

3. Holding a straight line coming out of Turn 4, or anywhere for that matter. We had an incident in the Pro/1/2/3 where a racer made an abrupt movement (sideways) to the point where another racer had to clip out of their pedal to keep the bike upright. Racer Sideways says he moved out of the way cuz he was tired, and another racer said Racer Pedal clipped out to fight it out. It's a good thing that I had the Technical Director of CBR watching the entire thing, and the CBR Technical Director said that Racer Pedal clipped out to avoid crashing and Racer Sideways was too abrupt in his movement so as to interrupt the forward motion of another competitor. This is particularly bothersome because I believe that men, acting as men, should own their actions. If someone was man enough to do something then they should be man enough to own it, as it goes to integrity. Once you lose your integrity with me, I will never believe you-even if you are telling the truth, so you had better effing own what you did when called to the carpet-it will save you one day-I promise. Whatever it was that was done, get in front of it and own it and you will never go wrong with me...the medicine might taste a little sour but it will only be temporary.