Ice Weasels Cometh Promotion Report
I think I make the same joke here every year -- "each Ice Weasels must be more difficult to promote than the previous year." This year that "joke" hit new heights... here's the story. So we lost our original venue. Five years of increasingly drunken and muddy farm-cross took its toll, although it was not the landowner that requested we leave -- it was the town. White Barn Farm, we'll miss you. It took us five year to nail it, but I think we really did manage to put on the best possible cross race you could do at that tiny field, hemmed in by an ever-rising tide of suburbia. But it didn't matter, it was gone and The Weasel needed a new home. We tried to move the race to Adams Farm in Walpole, a venue EVEN CLOSER to Boston, which had just put on a successful mountain bike race this summer. To make a long story short, the difficulty of getting a permit to use Adams Farm and our perception of that difficulty turned out to be entirely mismatched. ...
