Hello B2V Team 1790,
We are 51 days out from our fourth year participating in the Baker to Vegas Challenge Cup Relay. For those of you who don't have the dates, the race takes place 16-17 April. We recommend you plan on being in Vegas Friday, Saturday, Sunday and returning on Monday. The awards ceremony traditionally is held Sunday evening about 1800.
We have our runners and FOUR alternates: (the number your names appears next to is the leg you are scheduled to run)
1. Fenstmacher
2. Bruns
3. Winters
4. Greenbauer
5. Salindong
6. Swift
7. Eastman
8. Foster
9. Hearn
10. Epperson
11. Bavencoff
12. Requejo
13. Hiltz
14. Dirschel
15. Burwell
16. O'Conner
17. Loveless
18. Peltier
19. Godkin
20. Conroy
Alternates:
1. Clifford
2. Olvera
3. Duncan
4. Swanson
Please visit www.bakervegas.com for more information. You will need to make hotel reservations. There is a button on the website called "host hotels" and they will help you register at the Riviera or the Hilton. We highly recommend you stay at one of these hotels since it is very close to where the command center (LV Hilton) will be set up. The Command Center is the brains of the operation. It is where we will have our Friday night team meeting, where you will meet your shuttle to get to your leg, where we will meet Sunday evening to discuss the outcome of the race. However, if you decide to stay elsewhere, you need to make sure you can get to the Command Center to meet your shuttle on time otherwise you will miss your leg and possibly others will miss their legs as well.
Also, please read the rule book. There is a lot of valuable information in there. We do not want any violations! Each violation has a penalty that results in minutes added to the overall time, which as we found out last year can be make or break for taking home a mug! http://bakervegas.com/rulebook.php
You will be responsible for your food in Vegas and any souvenirs you purchase. As we have done in the past, we will be using GVs and caravan to Vegas Friday. If you would like to ride in the caravan, please make sure you let PO Mike Lesley know so he can work the logistics.
As we have done in the past, we will be ordering Team t-shirts. This year there will be a few options: a running shirt for the runners on the course (a light color like white or gray), a team t-shirt for our Logistics staff, a polo shirt we will wear for the Sunday ceremony and a Team hoodie sweatshirt. PO Lesley is working with our vendor on the team gear and we will pass ordering info in the next couple of weeks. Also as we have done in the past, we will schedule a team get together the weekend prior to the race to distribute team gear and pass any last minute information. This will probably be somewhere in the middle of San Diego and L.A. - possibly Oceanside or Dana Point.
If you have any other questions, please let one of the team captains know and we will do what we can to get that information to you. Again, please take a look on www.bakervegas.com as this will answer a lot of questions. Thank you and keep up the running!
Please feel free to contact the team captains if you have any questions.
PO Mike Lesley (818) 335-6553 Michael.R.Lesley@team1790.us
PO Allyson Conroy (619) 278-7022 Allyson.E.Conroy@team1790.us
LT Bill Burwell (619) 278-7020 William.J.Burwell@team1790.us
Keep training!