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From my memory of living up there - it gets dark long before 7:30. They 
are a lot further North and East than you. In fact I suspect at this 
time of the year they only see 10:30 to 11 hours of daylight. "The 
shortest day of the year" is less than two months away.

Truman

rides2far@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> Why are they starting the 50 in the dark? The weather's cool...plenty of
> time to finish...what's their motive? They could easily start at 7:30 and
> have 12 hrs. of daylight!
>
> Angie
>
> On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 20:01:21 -0700 John Teeter <johnt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> writes:
>   
> > The AERC 50 Mile Championship ride will start at 5:00am EDT tomorrow 
> > morning. The start will follow the same path as that used by the 100 
> > Milers on Friday. There will be approximately 78 starters tomorrow 
> > morning in the dark (sunrise is @7:30 tomorrow). There is a new 
> > twist in the first (23 mile) phase of the ride. There will be a 
> > "pulse&go" at the nine mile point (at Edinburg Gap) 9 miles into the 
> > ride. All riders will have to reach pulse criteria (which I assume 
> > is 64) before continuing on. It will be dark. 
> >
> > Tom Sites is our man on the trail - he will be calling in info as 
> > also crews for 3 riders. Anyone else, as usual, who hears anything 
> > is welcome to pass it along!
> >
> > jt
> >
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