NAUCC 07 - Report

Next years will be in South Dakota. Here are some other results:

Expert Male: The redhead from South Dakota who belongs to TCUC and just
recently passed level 10 (10th person to pass level 10) and I can't
remember his name.

Club: TCUC

Big Group: Forgot

Small Group: TCUC

Expert Pairs: Amy Shields and Ryan Woesner


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unicycle6869 wrote:
Next years will be in South Dakota. Here are some other results:

Expert Male: The redhead from South Dakota who belongs to TCUC and just
recently passed level 10 (10th person to pass level 10) and I can't
remember his name.

Club: TCUC

Big Group: Forgot

Small Group: TCUC

Expert Pairs: Amy Shields and Ryan Woesner



Anything besides freestyle?


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Yep i'll be attended both conventions if possible next summer. I heard
the dates were managable, so i'm very excited to see what happens at
both.

-Shaun Johanneson


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forrestunifreak wrote:
Anything besides freestyle?



Forrrest, Racing was yesterday and today. Trials and Street are
tonight. Muni tomorrow. I am not going to post all the racing results,
but I will post some Trials and Street stuff later.

Bill Hugo


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RACING
The racing portion of the NAUCC 007 was excellent. MUDders had a hard
time last year bc of some bad weather, but this year, in add'n to the
great weather, there was also a pretty efficient team of volunteers. As
a result, riders were done with the 1500m (and 800 for the little kids)
and the 400m on Racing Day 1. Then today, we rode the 100m, and ALL of
the 'fun' races.

I didn't get results for most of the racing and track, so I'm not sure
what heights and lengths were posted for high- and long-jumps, but I
can tell you that Justin Woessner is pretty fast, and so are Nick
Muellerleile and Isaiah Leitz. Amy Shields won most, but not all, of
her races.

1500, 400, 100
The track is sluggish, a fact borne out by the slower-than-usual
winning times. For example, the 1500m race went to Justin, but his time
was only 4:43 or so -- quite far from the expected 4:30. In the 400m,
the top 5 finishers in the expert we
1:07.170...Justin
1:09.455...Jeff Groves
1:09.499...Isaiah
1:09.920...me
1:10.194...John Foss

As you can see, it was a hotly contested 2nd place -- four of us within
less than .7 seconds! That's less than 10 feet!

The 100m went to Nick, I believe, and again, his time was pretty slow
for a first-place finish. This was not a record-setting track. The only
personal best I set was for the slow race!

MISC
Tomorrow is the 10k, and I'm looking forward to taking that one, tho
Gilby will be fighting me for it. Fun fact: He's gotten lost during the
past TWO 10k races (winning one of them!). The 10k and muni tom'w are
right near a water park! Awesome! It was also nice how the race track
was in the same school as the main auditorium, so it was easy for all
of us to get used to just one set of directions so far (which changes
tom'w).

PUBLIC SHOW
I should mention that the public show was great. It featured a
fantastic frisbee exhibition as well as some incredible Hacky Sack
('foot bag') work from the same dude. Sem and Teresa Abrams did their
usual amazing show, tho this time Sem finished by riding his 14' (we
all thought it was 20'!). He's incredible. The MCs were jugglers and
were quite funny. The raffle went fast... well, as fast as I could get
it to go. Darren Bedford won the top prize! The top 5 or 6 prizes were
all donated by our friends the Drummonds at unicycle.com.

FUN
Speaking of which: another funny moment was in the relay race today
when John Drummond had to hand off not only the baton but also his
unicycle to his eldest son, who was running second leg in the race --
they only had one uni between them! As you may know, the relay race is
not really too serious! The last team to finish was comprised of my son
(7), a boy named Austin, and two kids under 6 (GracieLu and Gregory).
The little ones were adorable.

TRIALS
I didn't participate in trials or muni, but the trials area looked
great, featuring many cool apparatus including a car.

Well, it's off to (late!) bed. So far, a great NAUCC!


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Oh, I should mention that my guess is that the NAUCC 008 is being held
in Brookings, SD. I'm not sure about the city, but it's an educated
guess. It's supposedly going to happen from July 5-12, with time
included for sight-seeing since there is so much cool Americana in the
area.

I'm hoping it's in Brookings bc that city is "only" 23 hours from NYC
by car. If it's further west than that, it ain't gonna happen for my
family.


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Hey I just got back from NAUCC, they won't announce Street Results until
tomorrow, but for expert trials its:

1. Joel Burgess (sp?) - 25 lines
2. Brent Garrett - 24 lines
3. Jon Atwell - 24 lines

I'm not too sure about anything after that though.

(Jon and Brent did a tie breaker for 2nd place and Brent one. Sorry if
I spelled any of the above names wrong, I'm pretty tired.)


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What was the turn out for street, any one we might know taking part?

Jas


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I don't know who you know. Many of the Street competitors were among the
top Trials riders, though some were more Street specialists. Spencer
Hochberg was among them. It got dark during the competition so it was a
little strange toward the end, when it was hard to see what the last
few riders were doing.

If you wanted to see some totally exhausted riders, that was the place
to be. About an hour after a long Trials session, many of the same
riders had to compete again! Fortunately the temperature was dropping
at that point, as the high was around 91, with decent humidity.

The judges couldn't see what they were writing at the end. They used a
newer judging system, which I believe was borrowed from BUC? We may
change the IUF rules to that system as it was made up by riders with
more Street experience.

Obstacle Course:
My wife Jacquie did her traditional role of timing the whole thing,
with a little help from me and others while we went to lunch. She's
asleep now, but I'm pretty sure the winning time was 21.02 by me, a
pretty amazing time considering my lack of practice. Also better than
all my practice runs, which never happens! I think second place overall
would be Pele Schramm, at 22 point something. Most other times were 23
seconds and up.

I didn't feel the track was slow, but I don't ride tracks that much
anymore. I think it was more a case of the riders not being as fast
this year. I don't think we can blame the weather compared to the last
two years (Memphis and Salt Lake City). Both were pretty hot and/or
humid, though we did get some rain on the racing last year to help cool
things down. I just don't think there was as much race training going
on this year.

Next year we'll have at least a 100 and 1500m race for 700c wheels
(29"). Hopefully that will turn graduallly into a move to that wheel
size for the track, while keeping the smaller wheels for the kids. We
won't race 36" wheels on the track because they don't work well there.
Try it if you don't believe me.


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The riders in the street comp we
Jon Atwell
Jeff Liechti
Forrest Rackard
Pele Schramm
Brent Gerrett
Jordan Spera
Jacob Spera
me

Everyone was really exhausted, the people who did sport trials had more
time to rest between events.

I have all the runs on video and I will post all of them when we get
the results. Jordan's last run was so dark I can barely tell someone is
riding around and my tape ran out 1 minute before the end.


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