Guest Post by White Trash (Alan Abbs) By now everyone knows that Craig is the RD in Waiting for Western States. Craig’s been so busy he didn’t even notice I slipped this in the blog queue only a few days after the announcement. Only the Board knows what was said in the interview, but here [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Race Directing category.
Ham Radio at Ultras
A couple of months ago my wife and I were enjoying a nice meal outside on the deck of a beautiful home overlooking the McKenzie River. It was a business meeting of sorts, mostly with people who work with my wife in technology and education. The conversation, as is usually the case in these types [...]
Profit or not?
Been having some interesting discussions with a group of race directors recently. One of the topics is if runners make decisions about what races to run by whether the race or RD pockets some of the proceeds. There are a range of business structures out there in the ultra world: from volunteer where all proceeds [...]
Michael Lebowitz
Before Waldo 100K this year I was approached by a professional photographer who was interested in taking photos at the race. This has happened about four times in the past ten years and once I describe how few people run the race and how difficult it is to get to the cool locations I either [...]
There’s A Race Coming Up
The 10th Waldo 100K is three days away. I had hoped to blog about life as a race director the last few weeks, but never found a time when my mind was not swimming with details and I wasn’t answering emails and phone calls. Throw in a three day ski patrol convention in Twin Falls, [...]