SUFFERfest 2013

There was a pretty good amount of suffering that went on during this year's SUFFERfest.  After a beautiful summer and September, the weather turned ugly on Saturday.  I was busy all week with pre-registration which basically meant getting the bags prepared for each athlete to pick up.  I had a great team of workers for the bag packing and we got everything arranged alphabetically.  The other big job was to get the bags distributed and we had pre-arranged pickup times.  All of my workers at these sessions were great and I don't think we had any major screwups.  A couple of people didn't get their pre-ordered t-shirt, but otherwise, things went smoothly.  With the poor weather, quite a few athletes didn't show up but on Sunday morning, the other worker and I had a steady flow of people coming in to pick up their bag for the 10 km run and the 25 km run.  For me, the hardest task was to "balance the books" at the end of the day and I'm always nervous working with money.  Because of the weather, we didn't get a ton of walk in registrations or event changes so it was good year to find out what it's all about.  It was fun talking with the athletes and on Sunday, when the weather cleared up a bit it was good to see the SUFFER fever in town!  Andrea participated in the 45 km bike ride and the 10 km run.  Congratulations to Janis for another successful year as Race Director for SUFFERfest.