WASP UPDATE: Entries closed last night, and we have quite a lot but not a full field just yet. Hopefully a nice sunny day will bring them queuing up to pay extra on the day. Drafting a start sheet now. Still a few jobs to get filled though, especially for car drivers please - those are great jobs, the best seats in the house for road races so please step forward, £20 petrol money each has been allocated.
Ok, some
important Wasp race stuff at four weeks before the event. Firstly the basic stuff:
Race is on 23rd July and the
HQ is at Cowbridge Scout Hall (CF71 7AP) - this is behind the cattle market, turn off the High Street just by the Market Place restaurant (the Duke of Wellington). There is a small car park on the corner there which we'll try to keep for official vehicles, and then a massive car park all around the market and in front of the HQ. The
race start is 11.00 and I plan to have
HQ open up at 09.30. The course is the
traditional Wasp course around the Vale of Glamorgan, but finishing at Norm's cafe on Stalling Down. The race will do
four complete laps and at the fourth time descending into Cowbridge take the Cardiff slip road to head up the bypass to the finish.
72.8m/117.2km. Fastest predicted finish 13.41, slowest 14.09.
Pre-race committee meeting to confirm everything on the 14th JulyThe good news is that the new WCU system means that there are hardly any static marshals required and also that the road signage requirements are very well defined. It does though need a lot of signage, all the specifics on that are below. There are quite a few specific roles on the day that need filling, and my plan is to modify this message to keep track of filling those jobs.
Car drivers (need to be BC member, £20 fuel expenses each are budgeted, would prefer Lead 2 and Comm 2 at least to have some experience of road racing but you're all radio-linked to the commissares who'll tell you what to do anyway.)
Waiting to hear back from potential sponsor to provide neutral service but would still need a driver, ideally in a fairly big car/van.
1. Lead car driver (Lead 1): Mike Powell
2. Second lead (Lead 2):
Davey C3. Driver for commissare 1 (Comm 1):
ron b4. Driver for commissare 2 (Comm 2):
5. Neutral service driver:
Andy H6. Neutral service spanner person:
Red flag static marshals only one needed at each point, make sure you've picked up a red flag and a hi-viz jacket/tabard.
1. B4270/A4222 descent into Cowbridge:
2. A4222/A48 slip road out of Cowbridge:
RichardB3. B4524/B4265 Ewenny garden centre corner: Norman
Other staff which could be combined roles as long as you can transport yourself between different places.
Signing on/out steward 1:
RichardBSigning on/out steward 2: Chris G
Finish judge 1: Rob P
Finish judge 2: Chris G
Making tea: Alison P
Selling cake/sandwiches:
Contributions to cakes/sandwiches etc obviously please, it's a cycle race.
Managing the course will be the biggest task altogether. I've uploaded the course risk assessment, which can be downloaded here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3EPrRpZfw3rQmFKZ2hHZlFRMW8/view?usp=sharing - note that the final page has regulations from the Traffic Signs Regulations & General Directions (2009) on the appropriate positioning and sizes of signs to use.
Then the different junctions we need to get set up. I see it as three teams working on the Saturday before the race (22/07/2017) which I need to get some names against.
Cowbridge team:
Andy H &
Paul Nicholas junctions 1, 2 & 3 below. 16no 'cycle event' signs, 3no direction signs and the other signs, 1km to go, 'cycle race finish area', yellow flag as ID'ed on the junction 1 diagram. See also specific notes under the diagram below.
Ewenny team:
ToestrapStevejunctions 4, 5 & 6 below. 16no 'cycle event' signs, 6no direction signs.
Llantwit team:
Benjunctions 7, 8 & 9 below. 20no 'cycle event' signs, 6no direction signs.
...which is close to a fair division I can get without splitting up the diagrams.
This requires more signs than we have. WCU can supply enough signs to cover everything, but I will therefore need a
Man with a van: Mark Rosser
to pick up signs and radio's from Newport sometime tbc in the week before the event and drop off preferably at the club for collection. Potentially at the HQ if there's somewhere reasonable and assuming we already have the keys.
HQ Key collector: Chris Goodwin
and finally, the FLAGS and HI-VIZ. We need to make sure we've got enough and that they're available at the HQ on the Sunday morning.
Flags and Hi-viz coordinator:
Overview of course & junction references:
& the junction layouts:
Note that our HQ is not at Cowbridge Comp, so obviously we don't need signs on Aberthin Rd for the start. We'll want them on the High St to warn that riders will be turning out from The Butts.
