222 community fund slots still left for IM Canada 2009? Is this normal

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It seems odd that such a popular race would have so many community fund slots still open four months after the race “sold out”. Anyone know if this is a first.

http://www.nasports.com/commfund/index.php

Dave

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I was thinking the same thing. $1,300 is a lot of money.

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I blew at least that much for my wife and I to fly to Spokane, rent a car, pay for gasoline, drive to Penticton, pay for lodging and food all weekend, volunteer for the race, driveback and fly home.

I would have much rather saved the vacation time and dropped the cash today. Would have made out beter I think.

Dave

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yeah, seems like they’ve been fishing to see where the plateau is for what they can charge for a CF slot and have definitely reached that plateau. Not sure if it’s a combonation of it going up $225 in one year plus the sagging economy, plus the emergence of non-Mdot events, but it does seem like all the big race slots were just about sold out at this point last year?

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I blew at least that much for my wife and I to fly to Spokane, rent a car, pay for gasoline, drive to Penticton, pay for lodging and food all weekend, volunteer for the race, driveback and fly home.

I would have much rather saved the vacation time and dropped the cash today. Would have made out beter I think.

Dave

Definitey.

I’m in the same position this year though with a CF slot. Registered for IMCDA last year through the regular entry ($525), but now I have a wedding to be at that weekend of all weekends. I’ll get the $150 refund from NAS and then I am justifying not have to pay for 2 plane tickets, rent a car, 4-5 nights stay in a hotel, gas, food etc to pay the $725 for a CF slot to IM Florida being that I can drive there, spend 2 less days in a hotel and make it an extremely cheap trip. Will definitely come out ahead doing the CF slot for Florida than I would paying for all the travel crap for CDA.

Of course I could just take my $150 refund and skip IM all together this year and save a lot of money, but that’s not an option!

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Funny you say that, my brother got engaged and called to tell me a few weeks ago. He was excited to be getting married on August 29th and was really excited to have he by his side as his best man. I mentioned that if he checked his email, I asked him back in September to come to Canada for a vacation (as long as I had the house it would be chaep) to see me race that weekend at IM. What a cool bro, he changed the wedding two weeks earlier on my account.

Cheers,

Dave

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Not to mention a $775 tax writeoff
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