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*Costa Rica's Coastal Challenge!

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Interview with Tim Holmstrom – November 19, 2004



<>: “This is Tim Bourquin with www.EnduranceRadio.com. Thanks

for joining us for another interview today.



We’re going to be adding to our library of Race Director and adventure racer

interviews, so we’re going to be speaking with Tim Holmstrom. He’s the Race

Director for the Coastal Challenge in Costa Rica coming up January 14th

through 23rd in 2005. So we’re going to be hearing about his unique race and

what it takes to race in this, and what it takes to put an event of that

magnitude as well.



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should be talking to as well.



We’re going to be right back to speak with Tim Holmstrom in about 30

seconds.”





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<>: “Tim, thanks very much for joining us, I appreciate your

time.”



<>: “Hi Tim, how you doing?”



<>: “Alright. Well looking at your website, its fantastic, the

Coast Challenge in Costs Rica coming up here, how long have you been running

this race?”



<>: “Well, this is the inaugural race. We started working on

this and putting everything together about a year ago, or I should say in

January, so it’ll be a full year between the inception and the actual

execution of the race itself, and it was just about necessary to have that

much time to try and get the word out and realizing that people are still

learning about this event through different channels. I could use another

six months as far as promoting the race, I wish I had it, but we’ve done what

we could in that year.”



<>: “Now what made you settle on Costa Rica as the revenue for

this?”



<>: “Costa Rica is just an absolutely beautiful country with a

lot to offer both in people with adventurous spirits and people who are

competitors. Costa Ricans, by nature, are very competitive. They’re big

into running and biking, and they have a lot of events internally. They were

so happy to hear that we could possibly get some people from the US or

Canada, or other countries, to come down and compete because they feel

somewhat isolated. It’s hard for them to get to other events. Its tough

with their economy to try and come up with the money to get to international

events, so they put on a lot of events in the country itself, and we now

we’re hoping to introduce some people to those events and to the one we’re

putting on and let them see for themselves what a country like Costs Rica has

to offer.”



<>: “Now a Race Director who’s got the task of putting on event

a marathon or triathlon that comes over quite a bit of distance, I mean

that’s tough enough. You’re talking about 250 kilometers. Where do you even

begin?”



<>: “Well, that’s a really good question, and for someone like

myself who didn’t really have a lot of prior experience, other than going and

covering the events as a photo-journalist. I saw how things were done, but

even so I had no idea, I just had always seen it from one side of the fence,

so being on the other side of the fence and actually trying to put something

on is completely different, and far more complicated than I had ever

imagined. The one thing that I will say is from the beginning I thought that

since this was strictly running event I’d have a better chance of trying to

manage something like this with help from key people, as opposed to putting

on an adventure race which I don’t think, without a lot of experience,

without working with people who have a lot of experience in putting on a

full-on adventure, I don’t think you could pull it off in a year, and I knew

the fact that it was a running event would help me at least get a leg up on

learning how to put on an event, and logistically speaking a running event is

not that difficult, especially the way we’re going it which is linear and we

have camps each night along the course, and almost the entire course, even

though its in a remote area of Costa Rica, there is road access mostly, dirt

roads.”



<>: “OK. One of the big differences between this another type

of adventure race, is that you’re not running this start to finish, you’re

actually timed in each state, almost like the Tour De France.”



<>: “Exactly, yes, and in some respects we followed certain

patterns, and have broken away from other traditions in terms of racing, but,

yes, you do each stage and then you’re timed for that stage and then its

accumulative at the end for our winner in the solo category. We also

introduced a relay category and a team category. The relay category was to

try and bring in people who might be a little intimated by the distance and

they could down with another competitor and split the course up. They could

do that however they pleased, whether they did the first three legs and then

their partners does the second three legs or four legs, or they could do it

on and off throughout the course, but our hope was that it would let people

take this on without feeling like they’d committed themselves to seven days

of that distance.”



<>: “Will navigation be a part of this, or is everything pretty

much clearly marked about where they need to go?”



<>: “We’re marking the course because we really are making

this for runners, and ultra-runners, and although I’ve been covering

adventure racing for years, and my heart lies with how much they love

navigation. I mean, at its core, I think that’s what draws people to

adventure racing. We just thought this was really meant to be for runners,

and so they don’t necessarily like the navigation. They just don’t have the

depth of experience with navigation, and so unfortunately for the AR people

who may come and participate in this, I look at it more for them as just kind

of a training ground, or maybe a get back in shape after the holiday’s kind

of a session.”



<>: “Sure. Well, now, what kind of athlete do you think will

excel on this type of course? Is it the trial runners and the ultra-runners,

who are used to running these long distances over several days?”



<>: I think you’ll see the trial runners will excel. One of

the things that’s interesting about this event, and I think different, there

might be one or two others out there but no where, I think, in part of the

hemisphere, the way we differentiate it is that you don’t have to carry

anything other than water. We’re transporting all your gear. There are

self-sufficient running events out there where you’re carrying about 20 to 25

pounds on your back because you have to camp out at night and carry your food

and water, which really, I think, slows you down. We wanted to make a

running race for runners and let them actually run, and go at a pace that

they are accustomed to without carrying the gear.”



<>: “For a lot of people who maybe hesitant to go to another

country to run a race, this is really a good opportunity to get in there and

just concentrate on what you do best and not have to worry about a lot of

things because you’re providing most of that.”



<>: “Well, that’s it, and Costa Rica is very close. I think

people loose sight of that fact when you first mention Costa Rica until they

look on a map, and I think that central America, for some people, is a little

bit scary because if they’ve never traveled there they might think about some

of the countries that have had to deal with civil strife and other things

that would tend to keep people away from those areas, but Costa Rica for, I

would say the last 20 – 25 years, they’ve invested in education and in the

environment and stayed away from investing in any military. They’re a far

cry from the other central American countries, and also even like their

water, they have government sanctioned water supplies for each town, and in

fact the towns take great pride in thinking their waters better than the next

town’s. It’s a different kind of central American country.”



<>: “Now in terms of race directing itself, I want to talk to

you about you chose how each stage would end and where that would end, but

we’re going to take a quick break and we’ll be right back to speak with Tim

Holmstrom.”





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<>: “Tim, how familiar were you with Costa Rica before you

started this? Did you have any idea where you wanted each stage to begin and

end?”



<>: “No, no, honestly. I’m working with Rodrigo Carazo, who

was born and bred in Costa Rica, lives in San Jose, and he’s an adventure

racer, done a few AR races, including the Primal Quest which is were we met,

and I spent some time with him after covering La Rosa, which is a mountain

bike race down there. We went up the coast and I just starting getting this

sense that this coast line; it’s so undeveloped, so beautiful and I just

thought, you know, it might be a good place to put on an event. We just

started talking about it and I thought ‘Wow’, if you could run down this

coast, whatever the distance may be, it would give people a great sense of

the country because it’s a part of Costa Rica; the northern part is more

farming and more agriculture, and then the southern part is more rain forest,

and it really varies, even day to day, the terrain varies, and so I saw some

of it, but then as I’ve gone back there and done some scouting, I’ve seen

even more of it, so it really was a good choice in terms of a revenue, just

because of the terrain variation. Rodrigo knew it like the back of his hand,

so he was able to set camps. In fact one of the camps is on family property

of his, its one of the more beautiful encampments that we’ve chosen, and he,

I think from the start, he had that in mind as being almost a mid-way point.”



<>: “Has this been your full time gig trying to plan this

thing? It’s quite an ambitious task.”



<>: “No really full time. Most of any available time I’ve

allotted to it and it has grown in my mind and I’ve been somewhat absorbed by

it even when I’m not working on it, I’m thinking about it, but, yes, it would

be hard for me to devote all my time to this, but I’ve devoted any spare time

to it.”



<>: “Now any surprises when you first got into this? You were

probably ready for anything, but anything notable?”



<>: “I think just the fact that I was so amazed at how

welcoming the Costa Ricans were; the more Costa Ricans I met in my scouting,

how grateful they were that we were able to try and put on an event like

this. For instance, the Logistics Director, Chava, he’d been working events

for years in Costa Rica, putting on adventure races, but again only with

local communities. When he found out we were going to try and get some

Americans and some Canadians and Europeans down there, he was just completely

gun-ho to lay out the best course, and put this together the best way

possible. In so many words, he just said to Rodrigo and to Craig how

grateful he was, so that’s gratifying. I think I was just surprised that he

and other Costa Ricans were that energized by the possibility.”



<>: “Well what advice do you have for a Race Director who is

considering putting on a new event in the US, let alone another country?”



<>: “Probably the best piece of advice I can give is get back

to people right away. I can’t tell you how often people have said to me,

either by e-mail or over the phone ‘Thanks for getting back to me right

away.’ They have their questions and so many of their decisions as to

whether they’ll go, what they’ll do, hinge on getting answers back from you

as Race Director, or someone you’ve set up to answer those questions. I mean

in my case, I’m getting back to them personally, but you could certainly set

somebody up whose knows all the answers to get back in touch with people. I

guess my point is get back to them right away because people appreciate it.”



<>: “We’ll finish up with this Tim; budget wise, for a first

event, its got to be pretty tough to really determine actual costs and to try

and get that and then set your entry fee. How did you go about doing that?”



<>: “Well one of the things we thought about when we were

setting a price for the entry fee is we wanted to get people interested in

doing this who had never typically gone on an international, who had never

raced in an international event before. For instance, a lot of AR racers

have had the opportunity to go to some eco challenges, or races that are

similar to the eco challenge and that draws an international field of

competitors. What we had hoped is that for runners who don’t typically go to

international events, that we could coax them into coming to this, and get

some of the runners who are maybe more adventurous than they give themselves

credit for. I think, in some respects, they stay inside their comfort zone

with domestic races in the US, and those races are, admittedly, cheaper than

an international race, so we thought the only way we could try and cajole

them into coming to an international race is to really set the price low,

keep the bar a little bit lower, and also we knew that we had some

competitors out there who are more entrenched than we are, and we needed to

just offer a low enough price to be an incentive to come to our race, as

opposed to one of theirs.”



<>: “Now do you seeing this being an annual event?”



<>: “We do. We actually are looking forward to creating this

as a series. We’re not sure if we’re going to create another follow-up

that’s, say, an expedition length race like this one, or we’ll possibly do a

number of different locations that are, say, well not 24 hour races, but say

one day races where its just a single marathon but in a more exotic locale,

and create a series of those. They could be, in some cases, qualifiers for

the Costa Rican race. A lot of people of really into, I think, following a

series of races and we want to try and create a situation where we’re

offering a series as well. I think peoples’ mind-set is that if it’s a

series I want to try and go to all of them, and I think psychologically it

works very well, people tend to want to put that last feather in their cap,

to really mark them off.”



<>: “Well hopefully we can follow up with you after the race

and see how it all went.”



<>: “Absolutely Tim.”



<>: “Listeners can go to http://www.thecoastalchallenge.com.

We’ll link to that race site right below the link to this audio, so you can

check out more about this. Tim thanks a lot.”



<>: “Well, thank you Tim.”



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Anti-violence bill contains some unusual clauses

Joe Frazier has not seen his children for three years. He said that he is

worried that if a new bill passes to protect women against violence he might

not ever see his children again. The bill, however, is proving difficult for

the Asamblea Legislativa to pass.

It is not only Frazier, a U.S. citizen, who has raised objections regarding

the 166-page bill. In a press release, the Movimiento Libertario said that

the bill duplicates existing laws on domestic violence and sexual harassment

at work. The political party also said that the bill shouldn't be passed

because it only applies to women.

Many women disagree, and at least 300 of them held a march Thursday demanding

the bill’s passage. They cite statistics that show 20 women have been

murdered by companions or ex-companions just this year.

Laura Escalante Monje is responsible for distributing Movimiento Libertario

ideology. She said. "The law that they are trying to pass is discrimination.

Women are not better than men. What we need is a law that is based on

equality for all sexes and all ages."

A press release by the Movimiento Libertario lists the main objections that

the party has regarding the introduction of the law. The law is specifically

related to violence against women. But Escalante said that the bill is

hypocritical in that it discriminates against men. There are three main

issues that the movement has against the bill. The first is that the law

attempts to prevent discussion between partners which could hamper the

resolution of disputes. The movement said that the bill also prohibits

reconciliation between couples. In addition to this, neighbors and relatives

are encouraged to accuse spouses.

The movement said that the bill features many details that go against the

national constitution. The party leadership also said that the bill is open

to interpretation and can therefore be abused. Their main focus is the

section titled: "Relationships of power and trust." Escalante said that just

because a man might hold a position of authority does not mean that the man

is automatically guilty. Escalante said that the bill violates the right to

be presumed innocent until proven otherwise.
The bill also states that if a woman is killed by someone they know

then that person should be sentenced to a longer term in jail then if the

assailant were a stranger. "Why should there be a difference if the woman

knows or doesn't know the person that killed them?" said Escalante. Another

detail in the bill which Escalante believes controversial is if the victim is

economically dependent upon the assailant. The bill states that if this is

the case, the length of sentence will automatically be increased by a third.

Another article states that if you insult, ridicule, or embarrass a women you

could be sent to jail for two to six years.

Escalante also said that Libertarians have requested that the concept of

femicidio be removed from the bill. The movement states that this is because

it discriminates against men. If a woman is murdered, the man is sentenced to

20 to 35 years of prison. But if a man is murdered, the sentence varies from

12 to 18 years. "Why should a woman’s life be worth more than a man’s or a

child’s?" said Escalante.

The consequences of the bill has left some men worried about what their

rights are in Costa Rica. Originally from Texas, Frazier met and married a

Costa Rican woman. He said that all was well when they lived in Texas but

upon moving back to Costa Rica her family began to get too involved. So the

couple decided to move to Panamá. Frazier said that it was then that his wife

abruptly took the children over the border back into Costa Rica. "I have not

seen Kerry or Brandon for some time now. I still have all the presents I

bought them for their birthdays and Christmas."

Frazier said that he is very disappointed and frustrated with the family

courts in Costa Rica. Kerry is 3 and Brandon is 6.

"Men have no rights at all when it comes to their children in Costa Rica,"

said Frazier. He said that he does not think that his case is moving anywhere

and that no one is interested in his plight. In addition, he said that the

children’s mother frequently fails to attend court appearances but never gets

reprimanded.

"I am an honest man and have never hit a woman in my life, I don’t drink and

I don’t smoke I don’t take drugs, and yet I have been treated very unfairly."

Frazier said that he hopes that the anti-violence bill is not passed. If the

bill becomes law, he fears that the scales will be tipped even more in favor

of women.


*Online allegations prompts a quick meeting of officials

A quirky online publication claims the nation’s chief prosecutor is bugging

2,900 telephones and conspiring with a television anchorwoman to assume the

presidency as a strongman and shut down the legislature.

The allegations were presented as a Sala IV constitutional court appeal and a

transcript of a
purported telephone conversation between the chief prosecutor and the

television newswoman. The claims prompted top officials to hold an emergency

meeting Monday.

The television station involved, Channel 7 Teletica, issued a strongly worded

denial during both the 7 p.m. and the 10 p.m. news broadcasts.
The allegations were contained in Campanada, an online publication by Carlos

Roberto Loría Quirós.

Monday Loría published what appears to be a recurso de amparo or appeal for

aid, drawn up by him seeking intervention by the Sala IV. Loría claims the

chief prosecutor, Fiscal General Francisco Dall’Anese Ruiz, has overstepped

his authority by bugging 2,900 telephones, including some used by government

ministers.

Loría also claims that an alliance exists between Dall’Anese and the

television newswoman, Pilar Cisneros Gallo, and other newspeople to supply

them with information about corruption. He further claims that Mrs. Cisneros

accepted payoff money from the French telecommunications firm Alcatel but

that Dall’Anese has agreed to overlook that fact.

Loría in his posted appeal also says that newspeople are trying to make

Dall’Anese a presidential candidate who would acts as a dictator and close

the Asamblea Legislativa.

There is no indication that Loría actually has filed the court brief or if it

has been accepted by the high court.



*OIJ Boss Accused of Sexual Harassment

Three women working at the sección de Delitos Sexuales del OIJ (sexual crimes

section of the OIJ) - the Organismo Judicial de Investigacion - have accused

their boss of sexual harassment to the point that they required psychological

therapy.

The boss identified only by his last name - Ramírez Cartín - was sanctioned

with five day suspension without pay following a 10 month long investigation

that ended before the Tribunal de Inspección Judicial - an internal review

board.

The action by the public official is a serious offence and judicial

officials, including OIJ chief, Jorge Rojas, are being tight lipped at the

events surrounding the review board's decision.

The women said that Ramírez made improper advances towards them while at

work, that included unwanted touching and messages that were interpreted with

double intention. The women felt that their jobs would be on the online at

all times as they refused their boss' advances.

Their workplace, according to the women, became a negative environment,

dreading going to work each day. The women decided to seek psychological

treatment, that resulted in their presenting formal charges against the man.


*17.000 GSM Lines Go On Sale

Did you get yours? was the most asked question around town yesterday, as the

Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) put on sale the 17.000 GSM

lines on sale yesterday and customers lining up for up to 10 hours to get

connected.

ICE decided to offer the lines that have been abandoned or have been

confiscated for lack of payment by it's customers and may be the last lines

that may be the last lines for a long time, maybe up to two years, as ICE

re-starts the bid for the expansion of it's current GSM network.

This summer, the Contraloria General de la Republica (Comptroller's office)

resufed the contract signed late last year between ICE and the Ericsson

company following allegation of payoffs and problems with the contract, that

would have seen the GSM network expanded with 600.000 GSM lines in addition

to the current 400.000 lines installed by the French telecommunications firm

Alcatel, which has been the at the centre of the ICE-Alcatel scandal.

Customers lined up for hours hours at all the ICE agencies knowing to get

their cellular telephone connected to the GSM network, some with new service,

while others preferring to switch from the older TDMA technology.

A spokesperson for ICE says that by the end of last night more than 1/2 of

the 17.000 lines were gone, with the expectation that by the end of today or

Wednesday they would be completely sold out.

In July of this year, ICE had put 15.000 GSM lines on sale and were sold out

in five days. They followed with an announcement of an additional 10.000

lines, which sold out within the following week. This time, ICE officials

knew things would be different, and were prepared with additional staff and

extending operational hours until 7:30pm.

The lines were long, some like at the Tibás offices extended up to 800

metres. At the Pavas office, the line outside was shorter, however, the

agency has the largest office indoors, which was filled to capacity.

Customers who had lined up were allowed in up to 5:00pm, being told to come

back today.

Those inside were served and according to one insider, they worked up to

8:30pm, until all customers were gone.

The situation was not different at ICE authorized dealers, as customers who

chose to purchase new equipment were able to get connected - or at least have

their application made - by an ICE agent, who have the capacity to install

new service, connected to the ICE mainframe.


*"No" To Drinking and Driving For the Holidays

Curbing drinking and driving will be the main focus for the Policía de

Tránsito (Transit Police) this holiday season. Transit officials will be out

in full force and with a firm hand against those who insist on drinking and

driving, as well as not use their seatbelts or who are intent on speeding.

Transit authorities are gearing up and beginning tomorrow, December 1, they

will start operating spot checks during the evening and early morning hours,

as all speed controls along the highways during the day.

In total, 52 major night spot checks are in the plan and 370 speed controls

with a total of 779 Transit officials on hand.

Though Transit authorities are not giving details of their operations, they

will no doubt be similar to those of the least several years, where, like in

the areas of Escazú, the entire highway is closed off to traffic controls,

where every vehicle will be stopped and the driver questioned on his or her

drinking.

Transit officials have the power to confiscate licenses and vehicles of those

drivers who are too drunk to be behind the wheel, as well as of those

vehicles who don't have the proper registration papers in order, like the

Riteve vehicular inspection or the 2004 marchamo.


*US Airways Puts the World on Sale

US Airways is putting the world on sale for four days only, with fares to

Caribbean and Latin America destinations starting at $158* roundtrip and

European travel beginning at $193* roundtrip.

Under this sale, tickets must be purchased by Dec. 3, 2004, with travel

completed by Feb. 16, 2005.

Caribbean, Latin America and European travel must be purchased three days in

advance of travel, and U.S. and Canada travel requires a seven-day advance

purchase.

*Sample Markets Roundtrip Fare: Albany, N.Y.-San Jose, Costa Rica(4) $341 and

New York LaGuardia-London Gatwick $193.

US Airways is the U.S.'s seventh-largest airline, serving nearly 200

communities in the U.S., Canada, Europe, the Caribbean and Latin America. US

Airways, US Airways Shuttle and the US Airways Express partner carriers

operate approximately 3,300 flights per day.


*Key high-speed Internet connection has failed

One half of Costa Rica’s international Internet cable system has been cut off

due to a failure or damage underwater.

Radiográfica Costarricense S.A., RACSA, said Monday that the Arcos 1 cable

failed Friday but the company switched to an alternate.

For most consumers there was no obvious reduction in service, at least in the

Central Valley.

In 2001 RACSA connected to the MAYA-1 submarine cable and in 2003 to the

Arcos-1 cable, which is part of the New World Global Network Ltd. Both cables

go undersea to Florida where they enter the U.S. internet system.

RACSA said that operators of the system had assured them that the cable would

be back in service within a week. However, the Internet company also said

that it had been told that the damage or problem with the cable was under

water.

International experts are beginning the work necessary to identify the place

and to position a special ship above the area where undersea devices will be

used to make the necessary repairs, RACSA said.




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