Full mOOn 50K
(Message from Susy the RD)
This is our AURA 2008-2009 season kickoff and a
celebration event honoring birthdays of favorite AURA Queens. This trail is
great for beginners, pavement pounders and PRs! Rolling hills on all FSR roads.
Please bring running family and friends. No "night" care service for children
provided.
Donations to cover the cost of finish food, aid station supplies and forest
service permit are needed and appreciated. A donation can will be provided at
the race, but you are welcome to send them in advance to:
Full Moon
32 Emerald Dr.
Maumelle, AR 72113
If you have special requests for aid station items or finish food, send them to
the above address with your check or gift card to appropriate outlet.
Ricky Williams has agreed to do finish breakfast feast, graciously, again!
Thank him, kiss his ass, whatever it takes to get him back!
The run will be held from Lake Sylvia Day Use area where Traveller starts and
ends. There are restrooms onsite. Again, no fees, no frills, except for the
coolest kickoff run I can muster.
Update: A $3.00 park fee will need to be paid for each vehicle
at the park entrance.
Please carpool if you can! Parking is limited to the parking lot. NO
PARKING ON THE ROAD, GRASS OR ANYTHING THAT ISN'T PAVED. It is not dark when the
race starts; if you cannot see anymore concrete when you get
there, you are late and will be appointed as sag crew. If there is grass or dirt
under your car when you park it, your car will not be waiting for you when you
get back. Look for parking directors as you pull in. No valet!
Midnight Meat:/
Main event starts @ 8:00 p.m. Trail briefing, maps, numerous rules, birthday
singing etc. @ 7:45 p.m.
Out & Back along the same course as before. 25K & 50K runs. Marked with flour
only; no glowsticks, fireworks, flares or luminary devices of any kind.
There are cutoffs for this year: 25K T/A aid station cutoff is 10:15 pm for
runners travelling on. If 50Kers don't meet the cutoff, they become 25Kers, no
questions. If they would like more miles, they are welcome to turnaround again
at the finish after signing out. 50Kers arriving @ Charlie's T/A aid station
after Midnight will be required to wait for the 12:30 sag wagon. Once the sag
wagon departs, anyone encountered still heading out will be transported back to
25K T/A aid station or finish as
determined by sag crew. Any runners not exited the 25K T/A aid station by 2:15
a.m. will be transported to finish by sag wagon. Aid station workers are not sag
crew or transporters. If you do not make the cutoffs, you get a free ride! All
runners must sign in by 4 a.m. or will be picked up by course sweeper.
Early starters who cannot make the 8-hour cutoff are allowed, starting at 7 p.m.
only, when Charlie will be marking the course. Please do not show up between 7 &
8 and start running. If you cannot complete the course in 9 hours, please run
the 25K or train and try again next year. Starting before 7 p.m. increases the
likelihood of getting lost and taking longer than 9 hours to find you!
Two staffed and stocked aid stations at approx. miles 7.5 & 15.5; two
water-on-the-side-of-the-road aid stations at approx. miles 3 & 11.
Expect heat & humidity & darkness. Bring a headlamp, salt and a 20 oz + water
bottle. Bug Spray -- Good! Sunscreen -- Bad! Snake-bite Juice -- Optional! No
kissing copperheads! There is no EMT or radio service provided for this run. It
is designed for fun and making of joy for new ultra- and trail-running victims.
Old Hands: be nice to virgins. Virgins: feel free to experiment, but if you get
in trouble, listen to the advice of the freaks around you! Both of you: do not
yell or throw things at, disrespect, piss or sweat on, disobey or otherwise piss
off my volunteers or you will become one for future Midnight Full mOOn 50k's
with the exception of being allowed to be yelled at, pissed on etc.
If you feel these rules are too many or forbearing, take up race directing!
Thanks and we'll see you all out there. PeeWee RD SP (e-mail;
phone: 501-851-6182)
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