Oh, boy!! Two moons to play with...!!

Staggered Start

Our staggered start format intends to get everyone finishing within a four hour window, plus or minus 2 hours on either side of 8AM Sunday. That involves calculating how long it ought to take any one runner to conquer the course within a specified window of time, complicated by a potentially high degree of guesswork (yours included) juxtaposed with periodic (vs fluid) start times. Your entry form information provides the initial reference for starting time, but your actual start time will consider this evolution of “dialogue”: (1) You assess your conditioning regardless of recent history; (2) add in how much night running may slow you down; (3) how might 25,000+ feet of elevation (~19,000 for 100K’ers) add to your time;
(4) check finish times of runners from ‘08 and ’09 with whom you’ve run comparable times as they in your qualifying runs;
(5) make your guess of how many hours you’ll need to complete your Two Moon experience (your starting time will be calculated based on your input). 
(6) The dialogue finishes, with maybe one last round of “negotiation” if your times are questionable and/or a couple weeks out from the event you can’t control your anxiety and need to whinge/whine about your suggested start time, by the C2M Clandestine Curmudgeon Calculators’ decision on which Start Group you’ll join.

No moon in sight, but they'll find 'em both before Sunday

Explaining the Staggered Start Logic

There isn’t any? Absent arguable logic, our curmudgeon calculators will find some way to pigeonhole you into a start group that will put you at comparable risk for finding the finish as anyone else out there. C2M ‘10 will continue the Sandbagger Protocol (originating from Round One’s four misfits KumedaGillesOwensQuivey, and enhanced by Kirk “Hubcap Cuz His Wheels Fell Off” Fortini’s Round Two experience), which likely will only impact the 1st three start groups. If we accidentally assign you to a too-slow start group (based on your bogus predicted time), and you move quickly enough to get ahead of the opening times for the down-course aid stations, you’ll just have to suffer out on the course without our aid, or cool your jets until the aid station staff show up. Breech the Sandbagger Protocol, and expect your own personalized brunch served up on Sunday morning, a la leftover paté and twice-grubby-hands-mangled aid station fare, and more than likely, enough boner minutes to rocket you to the bottom of the finishers list.

Start Group Assignments

Herewith is the 2010 lineup (can you find the jokers in the deck?):

Don was the sole finisher in the Dos Lunas Scrub Run