Terry Farrah's blog

Meridian Geographics is looking for someone outgoing and organized to help support our events in 2008 and beyond. This is an approximately half-time position with flexible hours. It is ideal for someone with an entrepeneurial spirit who wants to put his/her heart into three growing event series and see the results of her/his efforts in the smiling faces of lots of happy people!

For details, visit our Work for Street Scramble page.

Hey everybody –

Because we are working with the Oktoberfest people to put on the Brew Ha-Ha Street Scramble, we implemented registration in AthletesLounge.com instead of Active.com. A few things are different that only affect teams with youth and children:

1. When you register a family team, there is no place to enter info about your teammates. You can help us by sending that info (name, sex, date of birth) to me, terry@mergeo.com.
2. When you register a non-family team, you have to pay $15 per person. There is no way to get the $5 child or the $10 youth price. However, you can register children and youth participants separately, then enter their team name where it says "Team Name (Optional)".
   

Spent six hours this morning designing the street half of the Seward Park Street Scramble. Weather was great, much warmer than yesterday, which I spent vetting the Everett course.

I didn't know much about the area around Seward Park, so I picked locations that looked interesting on the USGS map. As usual, I didn't have any trouble finding interesting spots. A surprise: MLK Way is one big construction zone, apparently for light rail. There is still one lane open in each direction for driving, but it's possible to cross MLK only at certain intersections. We'll have to scope out the open intersections closer to the event. Or perhaps there's a website with up-to-date info.