Festivus recap:

Yes we held the race and did not cancel due to weather and having no timer. We got it done. Was it smart, you can question that all you want to. As I state on the registration page we will not cancel unless there is a state of emergency. I kept my word. Its one of those things where I'm dammed if I do and dammed if i dont. I know other races canceled the night before and some, even in the morning. I could not cancel the night before because there was no way to tell if roads were going to be good or not in the morning. There was no way to predict that penndot wouldnt do much to clear roads by morning. If they did get roads cleared and I cancelled night before then id get bitched at. But since I didnt cancel and roads wernt the greatest i get bitched at for having it, because people say it wasnt safe. Well there was no state of emergency and roads were not perfect so that means everyone had to make the adult decision whether or not to drive and participate. The course itself was amazingly taken care of by the Borough and Township they had it almost bone dry at one point. So course itself was safe. We had plans in place for the cold and had tons food and hot liquids. Having timer cancel at 820 is what threw the real wrench into plans thats when things fell apart some. That almost made me cancel it but at 820 it was to late to do so because people were already on the road coming to the race. So I had to figure out how to use my phone to accurately do it on the fly. It worked well but took away from the extras I do at a race such as videoeing, taking pictures and clips and didnt end up hanging up stuff on arch because there was no reson to since they were for esthetic purposes in pictures and clips. Also didnt get to take pictures of award winners and talk to participants like I normally would. So alot of things had to be shuffled around. Was a huge pain to figure out awards once race was over but got it done, I didnt get to input names into phone so it was only stopwatch basically and had to use paper to wrote names and times down and placement then figure out from placement what award they got. Ill admit was huge cluster fuck. We got it done though.