Fall continues to cooperate, giving teams another dry weekend to get their routines down. We’re definitely into hoodie weather now though, and leaves were blowing across all parts of the course like crazy. SigNu was absent but a new team called Delta Force came close to joining the ranks of the rolling. Read on for [...]
The weather this week made up for the total rain-out last weekend with two gorgeous sunny mornings in the 50s. The Zoo made it out on the course, so we’re up to 8 teams. This was another week of collaborative rolls-reporting, and the much of the same crew came through this time. Many thanks go [...]
2 weekends of rolls in the books and we’re up to 7 orgs, we’re seeing some speed, and also the usual assortment of challenges to overcome. This also marks the first edition of our collaborative rolls report format. I was out of town and a these fine folks stepped up and got the job done [...]
Buggy kicked off the 2012 season just as scheduled with one day of fast-moving rolls for the six orgs that managed to get caped and ready in time. The weather didn’t complicate things at all, and the new sweepstakes committee had things running smoothly on day 1. Rolls started on time which is no small achievement this [...]
I hope the rolls report faithful weren’t too distraught today given the lack of rolls report following an exciting truck weekend. As you may remember, after truck weekend the large and well compensated BAA staffers spend the night producing an in depth and comprehensive report for our generous supporters: the Members-Only Raceday Preview. Lucky for [...]
The last regular weekend of rolls of the year was starting to feel a little bit like truck weekend already as teams set up by the start line and put down their fastest times. Saturday was rained out by about 90 minutes of rain that just happened to come down between 5 and 7am. Sunday’s [...]
How do you know it’s late March in Pittsburgh? 1) It was 20 degrees or less at rolls 2) 8 of the 11 orgs put up their fastest time of the semester this weekend (and the other three were the 1 buggy orgs). The cold was killing walkie-talkie batteries, fogging windshields, and fogging my brain, [...]
All of a sudden spring break is behind us and we’re in the 4 week sprint to raceday. We stodgy alumni thought the kids were taking a bit of a gamble not scheduling rolls for either weekend of spring break, but it seems to have worked out pretty well for them. The first weekend of [...]
Melting snow and rain kept teams off the course on Saturday, but Sunday was exciting enough to make up for it. Pika joined the new buggy 2011 club (with a standard tryke no less!) and Spirit entertained the chute crowd with a hat trick of spins and a rarely seen mechanical failure. Enough intro, let’s [...]
If you’re not in town it might have been easy to miss, but here on campus, it’s buggy season again! Last weekend was cancelled well in advance due to generally crappy weather and an insufficient number of caped teams, but the past week was nothing but ridiculously nice caping weather, and almost everyone got their [...]
