STAFF and VOLUNTEER SHORTAGES
People are the most important part of any event. Without proper levels of staff and volunteers events are not possible. We are a little short handed for this event and hope to run the event as usual, but just in case here's a list of things that may be different due to the shortage of staff and volunteers:
- Self service at the waterstations. Cups of water will be on the table for your to grab yourself.
- Self service at the finish line. You can get your medal off the table and get your bottle of water or other beverages we offer out of the blue coolers.
- We may not have anyone to hand out shirts and/or do body marking during race morning packet pickup. Also, you'll need to get there before 6 am or there won't be enough time since race morning lines will be long due to shortage of staff and volunteers. WE HIGHLY RECOMMEND you pick up your packet on Saturday instead of race morning.
- The look of the event will be scaled back with less mesh and flags.
- We may not be able to do the swim exit timing point and if not your swim time will include your run to transition rather than it being in T1.
- We may not have anyone to do manual backup timing, so if you lose your chip or grab the wrong chip, you won't have times.
- Nobody will be printing receipts after you finish with your split times.
- Timing chips will be self service. PLEASE triple check that you have the correct chip that matches your bib number or you won't have results unless you can figure out which chip you were wearing. That's where manual backup timing helps...
Please volunteer (for setup or cleanup) or bring someone to volunteer! We offer volunteer hours, race credit, or even pay if they are good! We need your help! To sign up a volunteer go to https://signup.com/go/xMfVseF. Please email [email protected] if you have any questions.
This problem is not exclusive to us. Every event director I know has the same issues right now. Help where you can. It's fun, you learn a lot about the behind the scenes, and it builds good karma :-)
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