WOW!!!! What a FABULOUS week of cycling. I was lucky to be a part of the Officiating Crew for Tour of Missouri. It was a great race, with great officials, great volunteers, great fans, and GREAT CYCLISTS! I have learned so much working at races this year. It was fun to be able to put it all to use at this event and see how a race should go if everything followed the book/rules. We had a good amount of officials, a great timing company (Thanks Fred and Hilda), lots of motor marshals, corner marshals who kept us entertained as they pointed us in the right direction, a great staff from Medalist who made sure that everything fell right into place in each host city. If only every race I worked could go this smoothly.
We had signs all along the way, for all cyclists, or for one cyclists. Students in some schools did reports on the hometown of a cyclist and then made a sign cheering them on.
We had kids lining the streets to cheer for any car that came along the way with a "TOUR OF MISSOURI" sticker on it. They were there in the rain and in the sun. 
In Big Towns and Small Towns, out on the farms. the fans were everywhere. The bands even showed up to welcome everyone.
We had big motorhomes for cyclists to get ready in before every race.
Cars and drivers, thanks Marek and Judy for driving me around.
The people in the Feed Zone, we saw them a couple of times every day.
I don't know how they drove from feed zone to feed zone around the race.
We had pretty flowers to look at and Ronald McDonald to pose with.
We had beautiful cities to see even after they got 5.5 inches of rain in just 6 hours, and had thousands still out of power. They had a bike race to put in and they did a GREAT job pulling it all together in such adversary,
When all was said and done I had a GREAT time, and made some new FRIENDS, I worked with Great Officials
and somehow came home with the winner's (Christian Vandevelde) autograph for Rachael. I also got Mark Cavendish, George Hinciape, David Zabriskie and Jeff Louder's for her.
Hopefully I can do another event as well put on as this again.
2 comments:
The Tour went right by my office and it was VERY fast. We were all thankful no one hit an armadillo this year.
What a big, fun event. Good job on the widgets! Hey, you are going to Disneyland too, and sooner than us, you'll have to tell me all about it so I'm prepared.
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