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by Cam B Fri Sep 02, 2016 3:40 pm
Coming towards the end of the season and getting on for couple of years into the role I’ve decided to step down as the Club Racing Secretary. I’ve enjoyed doing it but other commitments has made it difficult for me to do all the tasks associated with the job. I have hardly been able to get to any committee meetings and haven’t been able to take a lead on training rides as much either. The job actually isn’t quite as big as it once was since David Short stepped up to take on the TT stuff. So.... what is involved is:

- You become a member of the committee so you get to go to committee meetings (something I haven’t been able to do I’m afraid)
- You become the contact person for BC and LVRC
- You determine the club's race programme for the year ahead. In the last few years some of the people who actually race have worked this out over a drink. I think this needs to be done again? We did manage to put on 3 open road races this year which is quite an achievement for any club I think but the last minute issues re: getting sufficient volunteers make me wonder about the appetite for road racing within the whole club so I think there some thought needed here about the future direction. There may be some scope here for some creative thinking about how we recruit new volunteers from within the club! You also need Organisers to pull each event together and race organising isn’t something necessarily that should come with the job of the Racing Secretary.
- You need to deal with or at least support the Race Organisers in liaising with First Aid and Traffic Management providers for the club's events – Dead easy to do
- You need to keep an overall eye on event budgets, but individual event organisers are expected to keep records anyway.
- You need to keep track of event signage/race numbers etc. Most of the signage is kept in Dave I'Anson's shed, so it basically means checking we've enough of everything, ordering up replacements if needed, and ensuring it's available for the first event organisers in the spring.
- You need to take a lead in organising the Saturday training rides.

It shouldn’t take up loads of time and none of the above is “rocket science” or particularly difficult. Why am I stepping down then? Well....Like everyone else in the club who helps out I do this in my spare time and what with mounting challenges at work its proven difficult to even get out on the bike for a ride (which is what I like to do!) so I have to let this go for the time being. I also think that it may benefit from a change. Although I have not being doing it too long I have attempted to follow a similar template as my predecessor I (although I have not done this in as consummate a fashion as Phil  )....so new ideas and fresh impetus needed I think 

This is not about me dropping out of the club altogether and I am happy to offer what help/advice is needed to the next incumbent 

Form an orderly queue and...... stop pushing at the back 

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