Music City River Run Results? October 19, 2008
Posted by wedge in : recaps , 2commentsAnyone know what happened down in Nashville this weekend? Been looking around bet haven’t seen anything yet. Tried Barefoot Endurance Racing, who announced the event, but didn’t see anything up there and also tried the forums on BFC but came up dry.
If you know the results, drop me a note at wedge [at] talesfromthefoot.com or just drop a comment on this post.
Update 10/20 @ 955 pm CDT - Based on the comments below, there were two divisions…
- Inboard Division - 50 Miles - Won by Team Rum Runners - Don Simon, Todd Fipps, Doug Roufinauf, and Mark
- Ski Pros - 100 Miles - Won by Team Top Gun
Music City River Run - Oct 18, 2008 September 29, 2008
Posted by wedge in : announcements , add a commentThe boys of Barefoot Endurance Racing on ning have announced the details of the 3rd Annual Music City River Run. The endurance race takes place on Saturday, October 18th.
Sounds like they are doing two versions of the race this time… one version will be the relatively normal 25 mile variety. The other version will be 100 miles. For more details, click the link above to check out the ning site. Here’s the entry form with a bunch of details and here’s a link to the BFC forum with some discussion on the race.
Best Dam Barefoot Race… The BFC Recap May 31, 2008
Posted by wedge in : recaps , add a commentWork and getting my ski team on the water has been keeping me busy, but I did see the recap posted by Barefoot Central written by Aaron Schoelzel. There are some good details on how the race went between the 3 boats at the front of the race. Be sure to check it out for details about just how close the race was. And yes, my team was one of the teams throwing up rollers for leaders to go through on their way back to the finish-start line.
They also have a couple videos in their recap… the first has interviews with the top 3 teams…
Download Best Dam Top 3
The second video has 8 minutes of them chatting in the car on the way to the race, but watch the end for the interview with Teri Bell, one of the race organizers (with her sister Sandy singing in the background) and some other late night antics at the bar. Be warned, look away at the end…
Download Best Dam Antics Start 8 Minuts In
Finally, over at Barefoot Racing Endurance, there’s a little more insight from Viper who was on the 2nd place team. Here’s what he wrote about the race…
From my point of view - an incredible race: very fast, almost no mistakes. There were 7 lead changes - Jim Devens laid the early pace at 49-50 mph. Once Jim dropped out it was Tony and I within a boat length to the end of the lake, around the turn and back a 1/4 mile. Once Tony went down, I asked for all the speed the driver would give me for another mile.
Here’s where the only mistake there was in the race - when I signalled for the transition the handle slipped out of my hand. This led to a slow transition which allowed Ace in the Hole to pass us and get back in the lead.
A1 put down an impressive run. Just a couple miles in, Chuck caught a toe and went down putting MVS back in front. Ace’s next footer ran very hot closing some of the distance so we picked up the pace to 51+. When the 3rd Ace footer transitioned, MVS transitioned. The rest of the way we transitioned together with MVS running about 20 seconds ahead. Unfortunately, we had one transition remaining. So with a deep sigh, we made the final transition less then 1/4 from the finish putting in Mike Schnieder. Ace passed us during that transition and cruised in for the win.
Pavestone was right there only 1 minute back. Definitely their best showing and sending a message that they will be a force come this fall.
Disappointing for us, but a great battle.
Definitely want to see the video from Pavestone.
- Viper
Best Dam Recap 2008 May 11, 2008
Posted by wedge in : recaps , add a commentOk, maybe that’s overstating my writing abilities a bit, but here goes…
The Best Dam Barefoot Race 2008 was a race for the ages and after 22 miles, it came down to nearly a photo finish because of some crazy footin ability. I don’t know all the details, because my team wasn’t even to the turn around boat at the half way point, but here’s the story that I heard…
MVS #1 was cruising to the finish line, with the 2nd place boat still around the bend, when the remembered they need to have all of their skiers ski in the race at least once. Yes, you’re reading that right, after 22 miles, the 4 or 5 man barefoot team hadn’t even gone through a single complete rotation yet. For me, that’s simply mind bogolling. 22 miles and you hadn’t made it through your whole rotation yet? So about 200 yards from the finish line, they had to drop their footer and do one last footer change. Not sure if there was some difficulties on the change or what, but as they were finishing, Ace In the Hole came around the last bend and beat them to the finish line by 16 seconds. Footstock Dave Mueller was watching from his perch at the Moonlight Bar and I’m hoping he caught this footage on video. He’s always caring his camera around, lets hope he used it. Following MVS #1, MVS #2 crossed the finish line 1:17 behind them. Top 3 spots seperate by 93 seconds. Very close race.
Ace in the Hole featured Chuck Gleason from Barefoot Central, Aaron Schoelzel a past Footstock champion (and RAJ member), Chris Van Zeeland (another Footstock Champion) and 1 or 2 other skiers that I wasn’t familiar with. Clearly, they were stocked with talent. MVS #1 featured footers from St Louis that love to barefoot race. I don’t know all their names, but they come to win and practice for this stuff all the time. They also have a little racap on their Barefoot Endurance Racing Website. They have a first hand account of the ending.
The final results from the race are…
1st Place - Ace in the Hole in 23 minutes and 7 seconds
2nd Place - MVS #1 in 23:23
3rd Place - MVS #2 Pavestone in 24:40
4th Place - Hot Footers in 30:48 (the Beaver Dam Team)
5th Place - Webfooters in 49:40
6th Place - Mad-City in 63:43
Overall, the race, hosted by the Beaverland Must-Skis and Teri Bell, was very well run. The weather more or less cooperated. A little wind that created a few rougher spots on the lake, air temps in the 60s kept everyone from completely freezing, and there was no rain!!! Dawn and Woody’s Moonlight Bar provided a great place to start from and celebrate afterwards. Everyone that stuck around got to hear Footstock Dave take the mike to sing some karaoke. Surprisingly, he sang pretty well. Later on, Chuck did a duet with Dave on the karaoke stage. Bugsy, from the Mad-City team, treated us to an old boy band song (NKOB?) while the Bell family rocked a variety of music.
Props to BareFoot Central for providing some door prizes for the footers and Footstock for providing a free entry into the competition as a door prize as well.
Check back here a little later this week, as I’ve got some footage from our boat of the start of the race. All the boats taking off is quite a sight.
Best Dam Barefoot Race 2008 April 15, 2008
Posted by wedge in : announcements , add a comment
Just want to help spread the word the Best Dam Barefoot Race will be taking place on Saturday, May 10th in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. Besides it being the Best Dam Race, I think Teri and the Must-Skis throw the Best Dam Party afterwards. For more details, check out the flyer.
If you sign up for the race and this is how you found out about it, be sure to let Teri know you heard about it at TalesFromTheFoot.com… Thanks!
