In just a few weeks the Richardsons CC ‘KIng of Speed’ time trial series starts. This is a 9-event series with rides at 5, 10 and 25 miles. The objective is to record your highest average speed over these three distances - your best race at each distance will count. (NB. Under 18s are welcome to ride the 25 mile TTs but only their 5 and 10 mile distances will count for their competition.)
All races start at 7.15pm and will cost £2 per rider to enter. Any local time triallist can take part, and all RCC members are eligible for prizes and trophies. The events are registered with Cycling Time Trials and with the police. But we need one more thing for them to take place: volunteers!
I (Dan Joyce) will be sorting the signage, results, etc. But each event needs a minimum of two volunteers to take place - a timekeeper and a time keeper’s assistant. Three would be better, so that we’ve got a marshall for at least one junction and will be essential for the 5-mile events if we get more than about a dozen riders.
Volunteering just means means turning up on a Monday evening for an hour or two and wearing a bright yellow bib that says ‘marshall’. You’ll either be looking at a stopwatch, calling out rider numbers as they come in, or holding out one arm to direct riders. One volunteer at each race will hold up riders at the start (i.e. hold their bike as they wait stationary, feet clipped in). All of these jobs are very easy. What’s more, all of the events are LOCAL. You won’t need to travel more than five or six miles from the centre of Scarborough, so you could cycle out.
Volunteers will need to be there from about 6.45 (at the very latest) up until the race finishes - which will vary from around 7.45 or so for the 5-mile races up to about 8.30-8.45 for the 25s. If you’ve never done any kind of timekeeping or marshalling before, instruction will take about five minutes. As I say, it’s easy. But someone still has to do it.
I’ll be timekeeping at some of the events. But I’ll need help. Can you let me know if you, or anyone you know (e.g. family who would be happy to see you race), would be happy to help out on the dates below? If you can help, let me know
all the dates you’re available to help. I’ll assume you want to help on just one occasion unless you specifically tell me you’re happy to help e.g. two or three times. I’ll draw up a list when I know what kind of volunteer pool we’ve got. You can
email me or send me a private message via this website.
I’m hoping to be able to sort this using volunteers alone. If I can’t, I’ll make it a condition of entry that to qualify for the series you’ll need to volunteer (or bring a proxy volunteer) to help at at least one event.
These are the dates, with the race distances, course numbers (don’t worry about these) and details of roughly where we’ll meet. (More details nearer the time.)
10th May, 5 miles, V401 - meet nr. Morrisons
17th May, 10 miles, V417 - meet nr. Musham Bank roundabout
24th May, 25 miles, V430 - meet layby near Seamer on Ayton-Seamer road
7th June, 5 miles, V401 - meet nr. Morrisons
14th June, 10 miles, V417 - meet nr. Musham Bank roundabout
21st June, 25 miles, V430 - meet layby near Seamer on Ayton-Seamer road
28th June, 5 miles, V401 - meet nr. Morrisons
5th July, 10 miles, V417 - meet nr. Musham Bank roundabout
12th July, 25 miles, V430 - meet layby near Seamer on Ayton-Seamer road
I’ll be at all of them - hopefully racing some of them.
As well as prizes for category winners, I’m sourcing some kind of prize to raffle off among the volunteers.
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Can you give up 90 minutes of your time on one Monday evening? It'd be much appreciated. The first event is sorted and I've had some offers for events beyond that, but I've still got two thirds of the events to sort out!
. On here anyway. I can't guarantee it in the newspaper. 
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