Marji Update #4
TODAY’S UPDATE – Schedule of Events– GPX Release – Course Marking – Pre Riding One Way trails and private land – Radavist Article SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Date Time Event Location Buckle Time Wednesday, September 18, 2024 8AM MG200 Run Start & PP West End Ski & Trail 80 Hours Thursday, September 19, 2024 5PM – 8PM MG200 Bike, MG100 Run PP Queen City Running Co. Friday, September 20, 2024 8AM MG100 Run Start Forestville TH 28 Hours 8AM MG200 Bike Start West End Ski & Trail 34 Hours 5PM – 8PM Packet Pickup Blackrocks Brewery Saturday, September 21, 2024 7AM MG50 Run Start Downtown Marquette 7:30AM MG100 Bike, Duathlon Start Forestville TH 12 Hours (100Bike), 22 Hours (Duathlon) 8AM MG50 Bike Start Downtown Marquette 10AM Mini Marji Start Jackson Park 12PM Finish Line Opens Ishpeming Sunday, September 22, 2024 2AM Jackson Park Cutoff Jackson Park 8:30AM MG2024 Cutoff Ishpeming MARJI GESICK GPX FILES ARE HOSTED ON RWGPS RWGPS GPX files are all events will be posted to our RWGPS account here. We will not post them anywhere else. If everything goes to plan, they’ll be posted by Sunday, September 15. COURSE MARKING Course markers consist of four signs: Red ArrowsWrong Way Blame Danny Blame Todd The course is marked well, but that does not mean you should leave the gps at home. Like we have always said: Signs fall down, people pull them down, bears eat them, and the wind blows them away. GPS is required. Course markers should for the most part always be posted on your right side. Turns should be marked before and after the turn. Signage is printed on a reflective material making the arrows very easy to see at night. The course will be marked between Sunday, September 15 and Friday, September 20, 2024. If you happen to be pre riding and see something that doesn’t make sense, let me know. PRE RIDING ONE WAY TRAILS AND PRIVATE LAND Some trails within the Marji Gesick routes are “one way”, but on the day of the event we go against the normal flow of traffic. Please refrain from riding one-way trails in “the wrong direction” during your pre-ride. We checked with the trail orgs. NTN is the only trail org currently designating some trails as “one way.” Marquette Mountain is private property. We are permitted to send racers across their property on the days of the event. Outside of the event you are required to purchase a day or a season pass. Please respect that. Lowes Trail crosses private property, too. The landowner has been kind enough to grant us access to the snowmobile trail/powerline for the event. PACERS AND UNREGISTERED RIDERS Pacers and unregistered riders are not permitted. The trails are open to the public, but the event is not open to someone who wants to “ride along.” If caught using a pacer or riding with unregistered riders, it will result in a DQ. Mino-giizhigad; Maazhi-giizhigad: The Marji Gesick Radar Mino-giizhigad; Maazhi-giizhigad: The Marji Gesick By: Alexandera Houchin January 7, 2020 Credit: 906 Adventure Team. Cable, age 9, carving out his legacy. (It’s a good day; it’s a bad day) Shakespeare insisted that a name held nothing significant; in fact, a name is but an arbitrary designator. A rose, “by any other name would smell as sweet.” If the rose weren’t called a rose, we would still swoon over the sweet smell. Poor Juliet, the owner of a smitten young heart, failed to see everything that exists in a name. In my case, at thirty years old, I still carry my maiden name. Instead, I like to say it’s the name I’ve made for myself; I don’t see that changing any time soon. I grew up in the trailer park across the street from the General Motors Factory in Janesville, Wisconsin, and attended Jackson Elementary school. It was there I celebrated Andrew Jackson as a glorious president; Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act of 1830. What’s in that name? A legacy of brutality*, I say. *Yes, this is a reference to the 1985 album by the Misfits. Hybrid moments is one of my favorite songs of all time. I believe that there is a legacy in the name; a name is what we make it. I was Alex for years, ambiguous, unsure of myself. It wasn’t until I began to own my history that I started going by my given name. Alexandera, with the extra “e.” It was the name I was given; it’s up to me to leave the legacy behind… –> Continue to Full Article Supporting Partners