Pick a run group you aren't working or running, and go and sit quietly
inside the motor home observing. It's not even a strain on a hot day...
KeS
>From: "Talley, Brooks" <brooks@frnk.com>
>To: "'ba-autox@autox.team.net'" <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
>Subject: RE: 2000 Winter Slush Series-revised
>Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 16:43:40 -0700
>
>adozzell wrote:
>
> >A solid trailer cew
> >is essential to a smooth event and maybe we should restrict the
> >trailer crew to those folks that can do the job.
> >At the 8/13 GGF event Jim Ochi and I ran the trailer alone and
> >we averaged 21s overlaps for our run group and we had time to
> >hold the start and run out onto course to reset cones that had
> >been knocked over and missed by the crew on course.
> >I can buy the safety argument for overlap times and I can buy
> >the argument that you have to wait for folks to finish their
> >conversation before running to pick up a downed cone, but I
> >don't agree that the trailer cannot keep up.
>
>Hmm. Well, I'm a relative newbie, and I haven't tried a trailer job for
>just this reason: I don't want to be the idiot who brings things to a
>screeching halt. So far I've worked the course at every event (8, I
>think),
>because I'm confident I can do it well.
>
>But you know what: the first event I worked course, I had an experienced
>person out there with me to tell me what to do and generally educate by way
>of example (thanks, Greg).
>
>Maybe there needs to be an "apprentice" position in the trailer, or some
>better way to get educated on the trailer jobs and how to do them well.
>That is, if the trailer's efficiency is really a problem that needs to be
>solved here.
>
>-b
>
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