Clifton CC

I'd be up for being part of a Brompton Team how many riders required? Anyone else fancy it?

Fraz at York Cycleworks is arranging all aspects of the Brompton race - give them a buzz to see what the situation is.

Jason.

like my bike wrote:I'd be up for being part of a Brompton Team how many riders required? Anyone else fancy it?

Well, I will be up for it if you can find more riders at such short notice. Fancy riding with a Malton Wheeler?
Fraz says that there is only space for a couple more teams though.

Got to act fast!

I'm enjoying helping out today allthough I felt like abit of a numpty getting confused with the sign on process at first I just felt I was causing agro for other helpers.

Will you did ok it was not easy having to get set up in the HQ and learn each of the jobs we had to do with quite a lot to set up in what seemed like a very short amount of time in a busy HQ.
From my point of view as a marshal everything seemed to go well with all the helpers doing a great job with Jason who stood in in Phil,s absence doing an excellent job I know I would not have fancied taking it on but it was all possible due to all the work Phil had put in leading up to the event as always.

A good evenings racing and nice to see the Clifton riders out there with a great turn out in the younger event, well done.

Ian H

Dear all,

Sorry for the length of this post – please stick with it, I think it’s important.

Firstly, I’d like to thank all of the club members and friends who gave up their afternoons and evenings to volunteer and make the event go so smoothly yesterday. They all did an absolutely sterling job, and as a club we’ve received some great feedback (more of that later).

As posted earlier, we needed around 15 people to fulfil our obligations on the day (marshalling, signing on etc), and by hook and by crook (and with a bit of help from BC) we got there. Given that for many of the volunteers it was the first time they’d done this sort of thing, I think that they are all due a few well-deserved proud moments.

But… (you knew it was coming) it would have been a lot less difficult for all if we could have had a few more helping hands (thanks to those who sent apologies). We only just covered our obligations, and this meant that everybody was busy all the time. The marshals were all on post for three hours non-stop. The signing on crew were all in position for upto five hours. The marshals doubled-up early on and helped out with signing-on. This was observed and commented on (fairly, in my opinion) by the commissaire.

We did a great event yesterday, it was a long, hard day for all involved and thanks for putting up with me, for pulling together and for pitching in with good ideas. All being well, there will be another event next year.

Ian’s comment about the HQ is noted and I’ll raise it with CYC at a de-brief in a few weeks. I also think it would be useful for volunteers to meet in the week before the event to allow some “old hands” to show “rookies” how to managing signing on, what marshalling involves, and to have an on-the-day “manager” for these two main roles. This would mean that people turn up on the day comfortable that they have a bit of knowledge about what’s going on. If anyone has any other comments / suggestions / thoughts on what could be done better / added / avoided, please post on here, but ultimately it’s people on the day that make these things work, not ideas.

Two final things. Firstly, huge respect to Phil B for all that he does for this club. I’ve had a small insight into it over the last few weeks, and it’s given me sleepless nights and eaten masses of my time. I think it’s incredible how Phil balances organising events, running a business and keeping fit enough to enter races himself.

Secondly, we received this feedback today: “Just a quick email to say thank you for organising such a fantastic event. Myself, my fellow team mates (Dinnington RC) and all our families had an absolutely fantastic day. As a club we organise many races in our region and understand the intricacies of trying to create, promote and put into action all the things required in holding an event. However to do so in a tourist city centre hotspot on a Sunday afternoon is something we can't even try and comprehend. An amazing achievement and one that we will most definitely be back to sample again. Congratulations to you and your club on what was without doubt the best club outing we have had this year.”

Let’s build on yesterday to make next year’s event even better.

Jason.

I'd just like to echo previous comments. We turned up to lend a hand after our planned holiday fell through so should have been 'additional' help. Turned out poor Jason was pulling his hair out due to a very thin show of marshals.

It's to Jason's credit that the event went so smoothly and from what I saw he wore out the soles of his shoes running around. Big thanks to the rest of the marshals who did turn up for doing the Club proud - I had lots of positive feedback standing in the HQ. Apart from one 'Mr Angry' who wanted to speak to someone in charge to make a formal complaint. I volunteered myself to do a bit of customer service but the conversation was a short one when he went into a rant about he hates cyclists and none of them were obeying traffic rules and what were we going to do about it. I politely directed him to a Policeman.

I have a couple of comments to make on yesterday's event:

I felt that everyone working on supporting the event- Marshalls, programme sellers (often one and the same), the signing-on team and, of course, Jason (who will no doubt be as grey as me by the end of the week) worked really hard yesterday to make the event such a success. Given that there were so few people who turned out to help, yet managed to cover the entire event, often at the expense of being able to watch the racing, speaks volumes for their commitment to help out. Will- none of us had much of a clue what we were doing at the start but all of us (including you) pulled together and, in my opinion, worked well as a team.

My second comment is that it would definitely be useful to get together, as suggested, a week or so beforehand to run through the signing-on process for the different categories of licence holder / EOL riders and marshalling requirements so that we're not having to learn on the day when people are queuing up for our services.

That said- what a fantastic event- almost all of the riders expressed their thanks for a good event, with lots stating that they were looking forward to next year's event. A good PR event for the club and a great event for York.

any pictures?

I now have the results for all three races.

Elite race (first 20):

1 Ed Clancy
2 Ian Bibby
3 Graham Briggs
4 Peter Williams
5 Stuart Reid
6 Johnny McEvoy
7 Daniel Storey
8 Jeroen Janssen
9 Malcolm Elliott
10 Andy Coupe
11 Dan Smith
12 Will Fox
13 Alex Bottemley
14 James Sampson
15 Nathan Wilson
16 Rob Orr
17 James Sharpe
18 Christopher Mark
19 Jack Adams
20 Danny Cowthorpe

3/4/W/J (first 10)

1 Phil Malt
2 Jordan Skinner
3 Mike Moss
4 John Doherty
5 Phil Wilkins
6 Lee Brown
7 Joseph White
8 Nick Coupland
9 Peter Fielding-Smith
10 Tom Garwell

Youth A:

1st Jack Sadler
2nd Gabriel Cullaigh
3rd Levi Moody
1st Girl Naomi Johnston

Youth B:

1st Joey Walker
2nd Jake Beach
3rd Jake Dobson
1st Girl Harmonie Waterman

Jason.

It was a great event and I hope everyone who helped found satisfaction in being involved, I know I did. Special mention must go to Phil and Jason for putting it all together.

Will, you did an excellent job at signing on.

It was amazing to see so many riders in all the categories and a top class e/1/2 field.

Tobzlerone wrote:any pictures?

I've added a new topic with some photos in...

http://discussion.cliftoncc.org/viewtop ... 9903#19903

Phil

I could see couple of Clifton jerseys in Evening Press last night. If its you and haven't got a copy drop me a note and will pass on.

Out of interest how many riders did we have?

I recognized Naomis name which was great to see.

We had 6 riders in the Youth A/B races under 16/14. Which is a massive step forward from last year!!!

Press article online

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/9208401 ... ity_Races/

Jason - is there a full set of U16 results our riders would like to know how they did?