16 days til race day; entries to date total 119; race website gets 500 hits yesterday

As race day approaches, interest in Mud Mountain XIV is growing. The official race website (www.mudmountain.org) received more than 500 "hits" yesterday, an unusually high number. Will that eventually translate into an unusually high number of race entries?

2009 online entries: 73
2009 mail-in entries 46
2009 total to date: 119
2008 total to date: 84
2008 final total: 567 (485 5K entries, 82 fun-run entries)