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blacktriple_s wrote:I really don't know how else we can encourage participants to marshal. Perhaps some see it that if they pay their entry fee and competition fee, then why should they also have to go help marshal in the hot sun/pouring rain? Also, some may be of the opinion that the club should be responsible for providing marshals at an event.
IIRC, wasn't there some sort of system in the past where competitors were awarded additional points if they assisted during the event?
pete wrote:How bout this? Marshals get preference on starting position for their run group.
Know how stressful it is as a marshal standing up in hot sun watching an approaching rain cloud as the group you're marshalling for is about to end only to see all the other people in your run group lining up to beat the rain? If they had a separate "fast pass" line for marshals, that would be one incentive. Also even where there is regular dry conditions, a fast pass line would be convenient as you wouldn't have to go and line up. Just go through the line when you want, get in front and do your run.
Then next thing everyone wants to marshal
wagonrunner wrote:Not a bad suggestion actually. , but then what happens when everyone (who is supposed to marshal) does.................
wagonrunner wrote:There were always those who weren't willing, hence the point system.
During my competing years in our classes, it was a lime.
The guys I competed against would take a car or two, and head to a marhsal point.
We'd be running music, in the cooler, and observing / critiquing the faster drivers' lines as an advantage for when it was our turn. As well telling each other where we think each other could improve. And what to try.
*sighs. It was Utopia. Pours some liquor for the friendships created*
blacktriple_s wrote:
IIRC, wasn't there some sort of system in the past where competitors were awarded additional points if they assisted during the event?
wagonrunner wrote:
I was shocked that I could head out the compound, come back almost 20 summin minutes later, and Ramon's car hadn't moved.
So much for fun run time because time was wasted "begging" marshals.
wagonrunner wrote:chairs - take a plastic chair and go with it. Leave it there, last marshal at the spot brings it back.
umbrellas get damaged, water does carry a cost, then eeds a cooler and ice to pack it in, so more thing to tote........ Should these be added to the club's expenses? Or can competitors / marshals pack accordingly?
Asking from the perspective of one who has seen wind damaged umbrellas, and 1/2 full water bottles littering the compound.
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