Registration reminder

[Tony Kloosterma]

Registration for the Regionals closes at 0900.
If you want to know exactly what time that is, set your watch to the time on the weather channel.

We WILL turn away any competitor that arrives after 09:00 am

Tony

[Paparazzi]

Will there ever be an afternoon or evening race? I don't even get to my day job before 9:00 am and they pay me.



PS: I have a book on sleep in which the author (a medical doctor specializing in sleep disorders) claims that the earlier you get up in the morning and the less you sleep, the closer you are to death. I guess this means that most Solo II participants are ready for retirement. It's also why Bill Clinton, Fidel Castro and I will live to be 100 (notorious night-hawks who actually operate on a 25 hour day instead of 24).

Also, the doctor explains how he made a killing betting on football, based purely on sleep patterns.

You see, your circadian rhythm gets two injections of "boost" a day: once to wake you up in the morning, and then a second shot almost exactly 10 hours later, with very little variation in timing from person-to-person. If you wake up at 7:00 am, it means that you are most alert at 7:00 am and 5:00 pm. You are least alert at 4:59 pm.

Click to See Graph Of Your Body's Cycle (http://bradtest.berryidea.com/library/images/sleep.gif)

Yup. That's right. Your North American employer is paying you for the worst part of your day. After lounging around all afternoon, you leave the office at 5:00 PM and WHAMO, your brain kicks into high gear.

Or, to appeal to this audience: You take your sixth run on the Solo II course at 4:00 pm, and hit two cones, losing the championship. At 5:00 pm you take a few fun runs and drop a full second from your best time.

Back to how to use this knowledge to win sports bets...

The doctor would wait for games that would take place in the early afternoon on the west coast, against an east-coast team. You see… the home team is currently at the lowest point in their circadian rhythm. The away team, being from the Eastern Time Zone, is operating as if is early evening: a high point in their circadian rhythm. Since the local team is normally favoured, the payback for betting on the away team is substantial.

And yes, I wrote this at 4:59pm. In a few minutes my brain will kick in again, and I'll go back to doing serious work.

[gatherer]

evening events happen... St.Lac puts them on...

I don't know of a region in north america that has afternoon or evening events as part of a regional championship....

and for the record I fight to stay awake at 5 pm when I'm driving home....

so I don't follow that sawtoothed pattern ....