Syllamo Results pending

While we're waiting on the results to be posted, I'll make a comment on this race.  It's not really a comment, but a question.  Why is the entire field started at the same time?  I don't know how many of us were in the race (250+), but it took 15 miles and the first checkpoint before the field spread out enough that we weren't bumping into each other at each uprooted tree (and there was a bunch of them) in the middle of the single trak .  The entire race was one slick wet mess.  It sure would have helped matters had the different classes been stagger started.  But I know that takes more volunteers and more timers, and volunteers were not in abundance.  Ask Janeen about that.  She and Steve Parker were a team of two getting that course ready. 

But with conditions like that all you can do is put out the maximum effort and hope it's enough.  I got back somewhere in 6 hours and 50 mins.  I'll live with that and try harder next time.