Updated Start Time and other tidbits

Thanks to some intelligent comments on Facebook (it's not a complete waste of time after all!) we've decided that we'll move the start time back until 8:30 am. What does that mean?

- We'll be setting up between 6:30 and 7:00 in the golf course parking lot ready to get people checked in.
- We'll try and start at 8:30, so please be checked in by 8:15-8:20.

The course is also changing. We've decided that trudging up frozen (at best, slushy wet snow at worst) MMRs probably wouldn't be an enjoyable thing for anyone so we've concocted a revised course. It's short on MMR flavor, so we apologize for that, but it still has enough climbs and small roads to get the real "taste" of the Rok.

We may tweak our cut-off times a bit too. Usually we try and set the cutoff at 9 mph average maybe giving folks a bit more leeway do to conditions, that would put as at:

- Zumbro Falls checkpoint - 32.5 miles in - 12:15 am CUTOFF
- Lake City checkpoint - 58.1 miles in - 3:30 pm CUTOFF
- Red Wing Finish - 80.0 miles total - 6:00 pm

As always... YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOURSELF! I believe that the roads will be pretty decent to ride on actually (we'll no for sure when the full course is driven tomorrow morning), so if you are ready and prepared and dressed to ride in 30 degree weather for 6-9 hours it should be a fun challenge. If you are not ready for that either please don't show up. Most likely there will be a v12 next year and I doubt the weather will be colder. OR have someone ready to pick you up at Zumbro Falls or Lake City and have a fun morning on your bike. We will not be able to ferry tons of people from all over the course back to the start. The compressed timing of the checkpoints is going to cause us to be "racing" around to make sure we are where we need to be, when we need to be there as it is.

Thanks!

I may try and post a GPX of the course... or whatever format people use.... I'm such a technological luddite. If I can figure it out I will this year only. Probably. Or I'll find out that it doesn't hurt anyone and we'll just do it for ever and always... who knows.