Winter has been very challenging this year.\u00a0 As the weekend approaches ORDA and Lake Placid\u00a0are working very hard to make the 2016 Empire State Winter Games a reality!\u00a0 But things aren’t\u00a0going to be easy.\u00a0 Mother Nature has decided to see how resilient we can be\u00a0in making this race take place.\u00a0 As of\u00a0Monday Mount VanHovenberg was in said shape, or should I say\u00a0there is little if any snow on the ground at the range.\u00a0 The penalty area is almost completely bare and we have a forecast of rain and warm weather for Wednesday.\u00a0 Not a good sign!<\/p>\n
There has been a great deal of discussion as to whether the races will take place this year.\u00a0\u00a0Still the race committee is optimistic that we will be able to make them happen.\u00a0 The final decision will take place Thursday morning, but race registration closes on Wednesday, tomorrow!\u00a0 So what do we do?\u00a0\u00a0 I have been asking questions about several options related to the races.\u00a0 First of all, if we register and the races are canceled, will we get a refund of our money?\u00a0 The answer I received this morning was yes!\u00a0 Good news, this doesn’t always happen.\u00a0 So should\u00a0we register for the races, the answer is yes if you want to race and the races are held.\u00a0 Will\u00a0the race organizers extend the registration another day until after the decision is made about the race, no answer so I would take this to mean no.\u00a0 Today I was asked as to whether we could hold the biathlon races\u00a0at the Jumps?\u00a0\u00a0The answer is a shaky yes!\u00a0 As long\u00a0as there is a range we should be able to pull it off!\u00a0 But what do we have at the Jumps?\u00a0 There is a 2.5 km loop, so we have one of the distances necessary for our sprint; there is a set of\u00a0electronic targets located there as well, but only 4; there is no penalty lap area that we are aware of, so put that all together\u00a0and\u00a0yes we could pull of our races.<\/p>\n
Now the question is what will they look\u00a0like?\u00a0 We will do a sprint on Saturday and it will probably be 7.5 km for everyone, that is not cast in stone at this point in time nor is it a guarantee that the races will actually happen, but it could.\u00a0 We would have to figure out how we will start, interval, wave, etc. and there would be no penalty\u00a0laps which means time penalties.\u00a0 So we have one race in the books!\u00a0 Sunday we are scheduled to have a\u00a0Mass Start race.\u00a0 There really is no way we can pull this off, so that race will have to be changed.\u00a0 We are scheduled to have a four shooting stages in a five lap race.\u00a0 If we do the same\u00a0course as\u00a0Saturday that means everyone could be racing a 12.5 km race, not likely to happen.\u00a0 So we have to see if there are cut offs for the course.\u00a0 Will we leave it as a four shooting stage race, will we change it to a two, are there cut-offs, etc.\u00a0 None of these\u00a0things are decided as of yet.<\/p>\n
So here we are ready to make the journey and no decisions are made.\u00a0 Most likely\u00a0we will find out what is happening when we arrive at the race site on Saturday.\u00a0 I will get the word out on Thursday as quickly as I can, after the decision is made, as to whether there will\u00a0be a race.\u00a0 Remember we have to get through Wednesday’s forecast\u00a0of rain, wind and warm temperatures.\u00a0 Even man made snow melts, which is what is\u00a0in the\u00a0Jump area.\u00a0 What should we do, I would recommend registering so you at least have a chance to race.\u00a0 After all if your\u00a0name isn’t on the list by tomorrow evening, it really doesn’t matter what the final decision turns\u00a0 out to be!\u00a0 I\u00a0 hope we can pull this off and we get a great turn out!\u00a0 I look forward to\u00a0seeing many of you on Saturday morning at the 9 a.m. zero!\u00a0 Hope we don’t lose the rest of the snow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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