Greetings.  And now, why a blog?  There are simply some parts of the business of Pacific Sports that do not fit easily any where else.  We have our websites, entry forms, competitor updates, and even now our message boards.  There are, however, issues that we and I personally want to give deeper explanation or elaboration.   There are questions people pose to me that I believe affect our broader audience.  I want to delve into those.  There are at times, circumstances, matters or just stuff that arise during, before and after our events that may be worth spending a bit of time on. 

I have been fortunate enough to watch participant sports evolve since 1978 from something a bunch of guys mostly did on weekends to having it become a part of the lifestyle of so many of us and in many cases part of our personal identity. 

Internet has changed everything. Few of you probably remember when virtually everything was done in what we now call "offline".  I remember being very excited when we could accept fax entries after our attorney approved it and I remember when we launched online registration just about a decade ago.  Before emails, the phones during race week would literally ring 24-hours a day.  The good news in that was I and we had a personal chat with the people doing these events.  We have not lost all of that by any means but now we do have the ability to be more current and more condensed. However, there are still stories to tell and things that come up along the way that slip into the cracks in those communications.

I hope a blog can give us a little more of that personal touch.  

Welcome,

Jack Caress