Saturday, February 19, 2011 - Informative Day, Sort Of

Got up early enough to walk over to the "riders meeting", which turned out to not be a meeting at all, at least not one that indicated any signs of organization. The organizer didn't start on time, and after 15 minutes of waiting, she started out apologizing, saying that she was waiting for the judges to "get in position" before conducting the meeting. Of course, as she started speaking to a few people, others stepped in to try to hear what she was saying, and started asking questions, so she started (I guess you could call it that) to start the meeting. Unfortunately, she was hard to hear, and after about five minutes someone finally handed here a microphone, which she didn't know how to use so it didn't help much. It seemed very impromptu and worse, amateur, and I ended up walking away shaking my head at the audacity of someone charging $58 to participate in such a shoddily-run event. I may check out another one to see if it's just the organizer or if they are all like this. I don't see it as being worth the money or effort. The "breakfast" was coffee and iced tea and one chafing dish of some kind of burrito mix, period. I didn't bother to go back to see what lunch was like, because there was no set time for that either and I wasn't about to hang out all day just to confirm what I already knew. Most everyone had packed up and left by late afternoon, pretty much leaving us on our own again, with only a few folks remaining. Anyway, spent the rest of the day doing some computer work and watching TV, planning on riding again tomorrow.