Happy Friday, @Challengers. I’d especially like to welcome everyone who is participating in their first FLRC Challenge. It’s a great way to explore the area and meet new people. We’re up to 110 runners now, with 74 people taking their place on the leaderboard with at least one run. Recruit your friends, particularly those in your ten-year age group, since the more people on an age-group team, the better it will do, and the more people we have, the larger the awards.
If you haven’t gotten around to signing up yet, I encourage you to do so soon because I’m placing the T-shirt order next week, and the only guaranteed way to get one is to order before May 7.
Congratulations to our second and third finishers this year: Gill Haines-Sharp (below left) and Melissa Wallace! Gill also completed the Tough Trail Challenge en route to claiming her finisher’s medal.
I hope new folks have taken a few minutes to explore the leaderboard, which has a metric ton (having been developed by a Canadian, Steve Desmond) of cool features, including:
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Stats provides a breakdown of what’s happened on each course, plus a summary of each week–we ran almost 800 miles the first week!
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Activity Log shows every run as soon as it’s submitted to Webscorer. It’s a great way to see what your friends have done.
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Clicking someone’s name (we’ll pick on Pete Kresock) shows all their data. On your own page, look at the Activity Log button, good for checking to see if those Abbott Ascent efforts posted, and the Similar Athletes button, which gives you a sense of who you might want to run with. The Similar Athletes listings will become more accurate as the leaderboard accumulates more data.
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Clicking a course name shows you the stats about that course, and is a good way to see who’s aiming to win a particular course’s sign by running it the most times. Looks like Ian Woods wants the Mulholland Waterfalls sign—hopefully the replacement one I’m installing tomorrow will survive longer.
Lots of great photos again this week, and although we’re sharing the trails with a lot of red efts this year, Tom Carruthers captured this particularly attractive little one.
Our group run this week is on the Mulholland Waterfalls course on Saturday at 8:30 AM. Parking will probably be tight, so if you want some more distance, park at Belle Sherman Elementary and run down.
Hope to see lots of you tomorrow!