Eyewear Done RIGHT!!

Yesterday I came back from a hard day of work to find a package with familiar markings sitting on my desk. The markings were that of Ryders Eyewear. Inside I found several of the sharpest shades I have ever set on my face.



I first started wearing Ryders last season. They were a prize for winning the 4 Man at last years 12 Hours of Mohican. I wore them the next ride and then the next and the next...you get my point. They have a great fit, don't slide of my nose plus they look good on. A special thanks has to be given to the marketing dept at Ryders for first offering great swag at last years race and now for more pairs of my very own.

The last word...

Well at least he is honest...

8:50 PM Monday March 2, 2009

Registration for tonight is now suspended. The old SBO site crashed after being online for only 2 minutes. It is a site that is capable of handling 900 entries in 15 minutes so there has to be more than meets the eye going on here.

I am at a loss for words to describe my frustration for all of you who have spent hours trying to register for Iceman. I will be sending out the new plan for registration as soon as possible.

Sincerely,

Steve Brown

Iceman Cometh?

First it was the the website being taken down Friday night. Then tonight I spent close to 2 hours tonight pressing F5 to register for the radio station concert ticket style on-line registration for the 2009 Iceman. Then I get the following message.

8:50 PM Monday March 2, 2009

Registration for tonight is now suspended.

Steve Brown

What does suspended mean? Is there going to be another day?

Coming soon to a race near you...

Iceman Take 2

So who else tried to register for Iceman tonight?

After much complaining about the 2008 lottery entry system the organizers of Iceman opted for the radio station concert ticket give away. Looks like someone had to be the first caller.

We are now postponing registration for the 2009 Iceman Cometh Challenge until Monday March 2, 2009 at 7:00 PM (EST). That will give us a chance to reconstruct the system after the malicious attack by somebody who created a program to automatically register himself that contacted SBO 100,000 times in one minute at approximately 6:30 PM tonight.

SBO will also be working to insure that this kind of attack does not impact their system again in the future.

I am very sorry for any inconvenience this has caused you and I know that many of you planned your day around registering for Iceman this evening. I just hope that you can have a great weekend and that we'll see you back here on Monday night.
Sincerely,
Steve Brown

100k times...I know this is a great race...but 100k times? Let's see how it goes Monday.