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POST EVENT HARRY FLATTERS BLOG
Saturday, 16 August 2008
It's a wet afternoon in Wales yet again so I thought I'd share some thoughts on this years event. At the end of the day we had a good event again this year, there is always room for improvement and we'll go onto that later. I think that from a competitors point of view it was a good event, the only delays caused by the usual antic of attacking the scenery! There were two incidents and thankfully all involved are perfectly well and keen to get back in harness when they get new shells.........
From an organisers point of view we were quite thinly stretched in some areas as we had a number of competing members who usually help with the marking. This job now encompasses more than three complete days and was completely exhausting for the five members who stuck withit to the end. Next year we must have another crew working on the day. Many hands make light work. Similarly the core organising team needs a boost to enable James and myself to be free to handle other things. The appointment of an all encompassing secretary is in sight, something that has been spread between us all for a long time now. Bob Long carried out his chief marshalling role with aplomb and has agreed to carry on for 2009. Again, Bob will assume some extra responsibility in order to free up our time. The intention is to make a more relaxed organising team, time will tell!
As mentioned earlier, there is room for improvement and a few things were mentioned at the debrief. More proof reading of documentation will tease out the errors, some of which we didn't notice until too late this year. It's something that always happens with all written work but it can be lessened. Comment was made about the decals this year, we had a favourable deal with DSC Digital print as it was his first ever job and there were a couple of small issues which will definitely be addressed for next year. Overall the service was very good.
Other than that, we had one issue to clear up with the HRCR which is now done and dusted and we can look forward to another good year in 2009.
posted by Martin Leonard @ 14:30 - PERMALINK
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