Dogfish Dash

I tried for 3 hours to to register for the upcoming race. I was logged on at 12:04, when the web site went live in my town, my screen stayed frozen in almost the same place for 3 hours (until I had to leave to go to class, I am currently a grad student, and gave up three hours of study time to try to register). When I finished class and tried to log on again, the race was full! Are there any plans to help those of us who were on in pleanty of time but could not complete the registration process because of a poor web server? HELP PLEASE!! Vince