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Jul. 5th, 2018 09:44 amI need to complain, but have no good place to do it. No one is likely to read it here, but at least I can get it out of me a little bit.
Toby and I are running the Northwest Passage Ragnar next weekend. We signed up with a team of I Run 4 folks, none of whom we've met before. Somehow we got voluntold to captain Van 2. Only one of our teammates has chipped in for the cost yet, but I do trust that they'll all pay up on race day...I hope?
Anyway, the race starts in Bellingham on Friday. That's a long fucking drive from Portland, so we're staying in Seattle the night before, at a friend's house. I think there was some discussion about us picking up team members on the way to the race, which I'm happy to do -- if they're on the way.
The rest of the team lives in Puyallup, which is about 40 minutes south of Seattle. On the way from Portland, sure, but NOT from Seattle. They were all expecting rides to Bellingham on Friday morning. I asked them to get to Seattle so we don't have to backtrack. They're bitching and moaning about this. They don't want to spend the money on gas (but it's fine for us to do it?!) and one of them said in the Facebook thread that "you should've gotten a hotel in Puyallup."
WTF?! They should've offered us a fucking guest room.
I'm really trying not to hate these people before I even meet them, since I have to spend a weekend in a van with them now...
Toby and I are running the Northwest Passage Ragnar next weekend. We signed up with a team of I Run 4 folks, none of whom we've met before. Somehow we got voluntold to captain Van 2. Only one of our teammates has chipped in for the cost yet, but I do trust that they'll all pay up on race day...I hope?
Anyway, the race starts in Bellingham on Friday. That's a long fucking drive from Portland, so we're staying in Seattle the night before, at a friend's house. I think there was some discussion about us picking up team members on the way to the race, which I'm happy to do -- if they're on the way.
The rest of the team lives in Puyallup, which is about 40 minutes south of Seattle. On the way from Portland, sure, but NOT from Seattle. They were all expecting rides to Bellingham on Friday morning. I asked them to get to Seattle so we don't have to backtrack. They're bitching and moaning about this. They don't want to spend the money on gas (but it's fine for us to do it?!) and one of them said in the Facebook thread that "you should've gotten a hotel in Puyallup."
WTF?! They should've offered us a fucking guest room.
I'm really trying not to hate these people before I even meet them, since I have to spend a weekend in a van with them now...