TrailSeeker great, SASeeding not so...

[Karooryder]

I do realise that Mr SingleTrack started a thread here a few weeks ago on SASeeding’s the very suspect indexes but I would like to reiterate in the hope that perhaps Fritz and the guys at Advendurance/SAS is taking note.

 

So I head down to FPC on Friday to do number pick-up for myself and 4 mates. I receive the envelopes and even though starting off in Batch F for the 70km at Tyger Valley, and riding a time of 2:56, I get seeded in G. Two of my friends rode the 40km at Tyger Valley (their first TrialSeeker races) in just under 3 hours and they get seeded in Batch B for this, their first 70km! The other buddy, a seasoned rider who finished Tyger Valley 70km in a time of 2:41 get seeded in D…

 

So I walk over to the SASeeding lady and ask her to check…she check on the system, do a quick calculation and of the 6 entries, the seeding on 5 turns out to be wrong!

 

Now don’t get me wrong, I have no problem with less experienced / social riders, we all started out there, but being seeded with the more socially inclined participants deprives those looking to challenge the lekker technical bits, from doing just that. I would have loved to sweat out those rocky technical climbs, navigate the rock cutting just before at the small cave, and get really dirty at the river crossings! Instead I was waiting in line to walk these sections, behind B (sometimes A!) Batch riders.

 

TrialSeeker Diamond Rush was loads of fun along a sometimes spectacularly beautiful route and I want to thank Advendurance for the cooool race, but I truly hope that SASeeding can sort the seeding out before the next event.

[rattlesnake]

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