Our "Come and Try It" TT on 14 June - help needed

NickScull · Post by **NickScull** » Tue May 20, 2008 6:39 pm

A big thank you to those who have volunteered so far, both on here and by other means. I'll be in touch with details shortly.

Jobs still unfilled:

Second signing on
Timekeeper's assistant (to call numbers of the finishers)
Second course prep and pushing off
Assistants to wander about in club colours at the HQ and help newcomers with general questions about the event and the club (x2)

I really would appreciate the final few helpers coming forward soon.

Thanks again

Nick

JamesM · Post by **JamesM** » Tue May 20, 2008 7:31 pm

I can help if you need it, timekeepers assistant sounds like a job I could manage.

PhilBixby · Post by **PhilBixby** » Wed May 21, 2008 7:39 am

I'll do the signing on; will see if I can recruit daughter and her mates to be around as general helpers

nickb · Post by **nickb** » Wed May 21, 2008 4:39 pm

As i siad on the previous page Nick, ill do pushing off.

SteveWood · Post by **SteveWood** » Wed May 21, 2008 6:39 pm

Im on-call with work that weekend, but will hopefully be at the event and can help out with anything that needs doing on the day.

NickScull · Post by **NickScull** » Wed May 21, 2008 6:58 pm

Nick B and Ian Hagyard -

Thanks for your offers of help.

I was hoping to get a team of 2 together to deal with course prep, and also to take turns at the start with timekeeping (ie counting down the minute for each rider) and pushing off.

How does that sound?

Nick

like my bike · Post by **like my bike** » Thu May 22, 2008 9:47 am

Nick I can do photos for website

NickScull · Post by **NickScull** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 9:07 pm

Hopefully I have managed to send you all a note to thank you for your offers of help and confirm further details. As a back up I am showing the full list below. It goes to show how many people are needed to make just one event run.

Job - Name
Signing on 1 and Results - Dave C
Signing on 2 - Phil Bixby
Timekeeper at start - Kevin
Timekeeper at finish - Steve Savage
Timekeeper’s assistant at finish (number caller) - James M
Course prep and pushing off 1 - Ian Hagyard
Course prep and pushing off 2 - Nick B
Marshal - Holtby - Rob H
Marshal - Stockton - Alan W
Results runner - Mac
Assistants in HQ to answer questions for novices? - Simon Kelly and Helen, and everyone else who shows on the day
Refreshments team - Cath and Helen
MC for Prize Giving - Strangely, nobody else volunteered, so I guess that's me
Photos - Andy Johnston

Please let me know if there are any questions.
Thanks again guys.
Nick

MichaelCarter · Post by **MichaelCarter** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 10:31 pm

Nick, hopefully we should get quite a bit of interest from college students. I've had a poster displayed prominently in a student area for about a month and all staff on a large cycling email list have been notified.

I was just wondering. Is it frowned on for existing members with TT experience (I did most of the flat rides last year as well as this one) to actually take part? I'm happy to mill around before and after and will seek out any confused looking newbies, just wondered if I could do the ride too?

Michael

Rob_h · Post by **Rob_h** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 11:36 pm

Will see if I can get a few posters up in uni this week, if 1% of the people with bikes turn up then it will be a great turnout

Gill C · Post by **Gill C** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 7:37 am

Would you like some cakes? If so how many?

Gill

Dr Dave · Post by **Dr Dave** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 7:55 am

Sorry can't help but signed up for the Wetherby-Filey charity ride months ago.

willhub · Post by **willhub** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 9:12 am

I'm thinking of taking part in this TT.

Cant see much interest coming from college students, hardly see anyone that would look like they would want to do a TT allthough alot of people in my class noticed the poster and mentioned it to me.

Arthur M · Post by **Arthur M** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 12:21 pm

Is anyone going to be riding afterwards? I will ride the TT, but might go for a ride after if anyone else wants to.

PhilBixby · Post by **PhilBixby** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 7:54 am

Arthur - I'd be up for a gentle couple of hours afterwards if the weather's vaguely okay.

MichaelC - and this is just personal opinion, I don't think there's any established "etiquette" for this yet - take a look at last year's results (they'll be buried in the Club TT series results) and you'll see that a fair few of the club regulars rode it as well as lots of newcomers. Personally I reckon as long as you're as encouraging as possible to the newbies (eg don't just snarl as you flash past 10mph faster) then it's not going to do any harm.