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Aid stations

Aid stations can be cost centers, profit centers, or neutral centers. No matter of the size of your race, they can be done well, and cheaply. I like to think of them as stationary parade floats.

by Slowman, December 4, 2009

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Traffic plan

Want to be a race director? Here's the skill of it: mapping out your traffic plan. Regrettably, even the casual racer discerns when an RD gave his traffic plan short shrift.

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Blame China if your rack wobbles

Have you ever considered where bike racks come from? I hadn't, until I decided to run a triathlon. Now I suddenly need a million of them, and sadly they don't show up in the Sears catalog.

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The Seven Nags

The sponsorship tactics for the Musselman Tri could have been lifted straight from Kids as Customers, in which James McNeal classifies juvenile nagging tactics into seven major categories.

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Five minutes with The Donald

I wage battle with one of our committee members to see who can email the other fastest when we get a new entry. He's ahead, and we are both pathetic.

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Three queries for a hay bale

The website is purring. I've got a Bike Coordinator, Run Coordinator, Safety Coordinator, and probably a Coordinator Coordinator working away at raceday strategies.

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RD Diary: Willy Loman, Triathlon Peddler

Getting sponsors. Yes, the task every race director looks forward to. If, that is, your favorite word to hear is, "No." This assumes you actually get any word at all in response to your supplications.

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RD Diary: One Million Revolutions

I have made small in-roads toward learning what it means to serve others, but have not done as much as I should. The Musselman Triathlon is a chance to give something back. But to whom, and how?

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RD Diary: Sign up now!

We've reached an important milestone here at Musselman Headquarters. Our liability waivers are drawn up. Oh yes, and registration is now open.

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RD Diary: Brick by brick

In 1997 I entered my first triathlon in Lititz, Pennsylvania. This is the same triathlon that lost its support from the local fire department in 2002 due to an unfortunate association with Harry Potter and alleged witchcraft.

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RD Diary: Talk to Jim

Race directors, and prospective RDs, we're starting a series on the sorts of things you'll face producing multisport events. This is a very well written diary authored by an ambitious, successful promoter.

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Race Registration

Our series on how to put on a successful race continues with race registration, both pre-race and the requirements for registration at the race venue.

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Your race budget

Our series on race directing continues with a nod to the budget. What will your race cost? Here is a list of things you'll not want to forget.