UVA UPHILL TIME TRIAL
March 25, 2006
by Cliff Smoot

The morning of the UVA TT began as any other Saturday of a race weekend. After a sound night’s sleep in our comfortable and spacious Motel 8 rooms, we awoke at the stroke of 7:00 AM to the sweet aroma of citrus degreaser and mildly-clean sheets. In the interest of team unity, we were getting up early to go out for an all-team breakfast, which half of us spontaneously decided to skip in favor of more sleeping. While those latter four individuals made the most of 45 more minutes of slumber, the other five of us embarked upon a twenty-minute drive to the Cracker Barrel that lay all of 50 meters away from the motel. Upon entering said theme-restaurant, we were greeted by a beautiful array of old-timey food and novelty items as well as the obligatory knick-knacks and farm tools hanging on every wall. Such was our wonderment with this apparently time-traveling restaurant that we decided to wait a full forty-five minutes at our table so that we could have a peg-game tournament before ordering our drinks. After four plates of Momma’s Pancake Breakfast as well as one plate of her French Toast breakfast, we returned to meet our compatriots at the Motel 8, who were busy breakfasting on the motel’s free offerings. To our delight, this turned out to be a very eclectic and cosmopolitan sampling of breakfast fare, ranging from the Southern flavor and charm of our Cracker Barrel hotcakes and server, Daphnee, to the simple and well-rounded offerings of the Motel 8’s European-styled, “continental” breakfast. As we next began packing up our three cars, someone pointed out that it had been snowing heavily outside for the past two hours. Indeed, in our haste to prepare for the harrowing uphill time trial, we had neglected to take note of the high humidity and low temperature. Ninety minutes before the race was to begin, the conference’s chief referee, Ruth Stornetta, judged the road conditions to be unsafe, and cancelled the race. Therefore, in lieu of race results or finish times, here are the results of Waynesboro Peg-Game Tournament ’06, scored by how many pegs were left at the end of each racer’s best game.

Bloomer: 1
Igor: 2
Cliff: 2
Jake: 4
Toby: 4
Jess: DNF
Katie: DNF
Smitty: DNF
Termite: DNF