Photo: Matt Cecil

Hi everyone

Thanks again so much for offering to volunteer! We sure do appreciate each of you so much!

As you've hopefully heard by now we unfortunately have had to make major changes to the race schedule and route due to the wind storm predicted for between 10am and 7pm on Friday. If the new plan is approved by the park staff the race will now go from 8pm on Friday until 8 or 9 am on Sunday. We'll also change the course after the runner completes the two of the regular 25 mile loops they will then start running a different loop that is 8.33 miles and do those six times to get the final 50 miles. We did this so we'd only have to staff one aid station location for the 2nd half of the race.

So this means that the schedules for many of the shifts have changed. Some shifts are shorter, some of the timeframes were adjusted slightly, some shifts were eliminated altogether, some new shifts were created and some shifts/roles were split into two. I did try my best to not change the time that anyone arrives to an earlier time that previously listed and I think I only had to do that for one person for one shift. I believe everyone else now will arrive later to their shift and or leave earlier. We do now have quite a few shifts to fill, especially for roles Saturday night and Sunday morning.

Some people are now no longer listed on the roster and that's because either your shift was eliminated or because I was unsure how to assign you after the changes were made. We still would love to have your help! I just didn't want to assign anyone to roles with out checking with them first.

So please take a look at the modified schedule/roster (click the green link box below) and let me know if you need me to adjust what you're assigned to or if there is a role/shift that is blank that you would like to be assigned to. And please let me know if you have any questions or just want to say something like "please assign me to any available role at X timeframe" or "please assign me to all the available shifts at X aid station" or something along those lines.

We will continue to keep an eye on the weather forecast and if it does not seem safe to start the race after all we will not start the race. At this point the forecast still looks good enough for the 8pm Friday start. Obviously hoping we will be able to do the race!

Also again this new plan will need to be approved by the park so to a certain degree the ultimate decision to have the race or not might be out of our control. Again just letting y'all know so there are no surprises. But we do have good feeling that the park will let us do this.

Thanks again to everyone for their patience, understanding and support!

James, Katy and all our wonderful helpers!

Rainshadow Running