A Strategy

A few weeks ago, a young man (19 years old) invited me to join his team for racing the Frozen Hog, as I've previously mentioned. Of course, shortly there-after, I discovered that he and I were the only two people actually signed up for our four-person team.

Now the way it works with the Frozen Hog is this. All those belonging to the same team race in the normal race category they signed up for. In other words, there is no "team" start time/race. You race in your age-group and level and whatever points you earn in your category are added up for the cumulative team score.

I just found out today that we have the other two people signed up. One of which is a young teenage girl (13-17 years old). As you might imagine, there are fewer young teenage girls willing to race in the snow, mud, cold and smog than there are slow middle-aged men with something to prove. In fact, we're counting on her being the only one.

Hopefully, she'll score lots of points for being the winner in her category--which might offset my sure-to-be mediocre showing for the middle-aged-slow-guy category I'm signed up for. I hope we win.