02/08/2022
RM Athletes,
First, I’ll ask for forgiveness in taking sooooo long to release/post this note………..
Many of you have been asking about the Friends of Multisport event schedule. You’ve known from emails and social media that we cancelled the 2020 and ’21 events due in large part to COVID. And, when it comes to the consideration of moving forward, we do have concerns about how long these surges and variations are going to go on. It all fosters a climate of uncertainty.
But COVID isn’t the only factor at play here. Other forces have had an impact on our magical event. Chief among them, is a waning interest in triathlon. Friends of Multisport is not alone. As you can imagine, scale is what makes these events possible, when the events are as ambitious as RM, and the expectation of production value matches. In the absence of scale, our event suffered significant, insurmountable losses in the last several years of its production, and hence, our conclusion to stop.
As we learn to accommodate the presence of the pandemic, we’ll continue to consider the production of our smaller previously established events, especially the 24 hour race, and see if there is sufficient energy to stage them.
The most important aspect of this communication, however, is to deliver the message to all of our athletes, just how integral and inspirational each of you has been to a most amazing event.
We’ll miss those long, powerful, hero making days, full of inspiration, determination and endurance.
Each of us, the committee and you, will look for ways to make new memories, doing other fun, challenging and fascinating stuff with our time and efforts.
Respect, thankfulness, and well wishes to each of our participants!
It’s been an amazing run!
Dave & The Crew
