i might write a little front page article about this but, until then i’ll stick it up here. i did a little digging. a guy i know who runs a travel program from europe has a bloc of rooms at the King Kam (the hotel right at the start finish). he’s got some rooms left over, he’ll have to eat a “restocking fee”, and, he’s offering them half price. which is still pricey, at $200 a night, but half of the $400 a night the hotel will get otherwise for these rooms (w/2 beds).
this is for any days right around the race, as in, starting thursday, and over the weekend.
i checked around to see if you could even get to the island from the U.S. at any reasonable rate and i was surprised. i just looked at travelocity. here’s some rates i found, in in the 9th (thursday upcoming), back on the 14th (tuesday after the race). honestly, i was shocked at the rates. check out san jose and phoenix. and these are all either nonstop or 1 stop fares, i didn’t consider 2 stop fares.
Denver $1100
Oakland $700
San Fran nonstop $1000
LAX nonstop $800
SEATTLE $650, the nonstop flight $950
Phoenix nonstop $683
San jose nonstop $515 !!!
Portland $650
so, if you go, and you have a buddy, and you split the room, pretty darned cheap vacation and it’s a pretty wide open race it seems to me, both on the men’s and women’s side. should be a good year this year.
shoot me a note if you want to go, i’ll put you in touch with the fellow who has the rooms.
Off topic, but I agree that the men’s race is wide open. The women’s race, on the other hand, is not. Unless you are talking about the race for 2nd. //
I would say the womens race is slightly less wide open, but no slam dunk by any means. I would hazard to guess we will not know the winner of the womens until the last 4 to 6 miles or so, and perhaps not even then. To me that is pretty open. In fact, i really do not know who you think is the prohibitive favorite…
Off topic, but I agree that the men’s race is wide open. The women’s race, on the other hand, is not. Unless you are talking about the race for 2nd. //
I would say the womens race is slightly less wide open, but no slam dunk by any means. I would hazard to guess we will not know the winner of the womens until the last 4 to 6 miles or so, and perhaps not even then. To me that is pretty open. In fact, i really do not know who you think is the prohibitive favorite…
There’s an article on the front page if you would like to do a little research…
There’s an article on the front page if you would like to do a little research…….//
Oh I know what is on the front page, but if you ask 15 different people who is gonna win the race, probably get at least 5 different answers. What i never heard was your guess that is a lock.
Last time that i would say there was a lock was in the Chrissie years. I mean she did shit before and during to handicap herself against all the other girls, but she was such a lock, that giving up 10, 15, even 20 minutes was not enough for any of the chasers. You would probably have gotten about a 90% win rate in any poll too. Not so this year.
Edit; Just noticed the prediction thread has started, with 5 people thus far predicting. Guess what, 5 different womens names in the top spot. Appears I’m not the only one that thinks the race is up for grabs…