Moderators: Mike Simanyi, Christine Grice, Rick Brown
I need to get a camelback thing. That seems a good idea.That was a lot due to some timing problems we had during that group and a whole lot of reruns for either, people stopping for downs cones, people catching people or Timing errors. Unfortunately, with the course, sending people every 20 seconds ended up not working, faster cars/drivers were catching slower ones and everyone was hitting cones so the course workers couldn't get the cones back up in time. Had everything run smoothly with everyone doing it in 3 runs that group should have taken about an hour max.Randy Chase wrote:I agree with Fred that this format for practices works very well. I really like having a set number of runs and some flexibility. Wish the car did not break so we could have run more than one group. Oh well.
Sunday the second run group.... was that the longest run group ever? Not too sound too complaining... but if I had know it would be close to two hours on course, I would have brought more water. I am still trying to rehydrate.
Really enjoyed the courses on both days. A good mix of things.
Third group was pretty dang long too. I think it timed at about 1:50 and I didn't see much timing downtime or more re-runs than were par on the day. But we had the advantage of ton's of workers (third group workers = 2nd group drivers). I had more than enough in section 4 where I was able to team a newbie up with an experianced worker for proper training.Randy Chase wrote:Sunday the second run group.... was that the longest run group ever?
I was not in yelling distance of the radio guy. He was pretty far away. I once tried to walk closer to yell something and then someone tagged a cone at the far end of my area. Could not get back in time.. thankfully Kenny covered it. Anyway good point about water. I did not it was a possibility that someone might bring more out.Rick Brown wrote:The 3 morning groups were all about the same size, 50-55, definitely larger than usual. Afternoon groups were mid 40's.
We should have used the foam coolers we had in the CTV to have water out there at the stations, that's what they are for. But if the Chiefs aren't noticing the need to get water out, anyone on course should take the initiative to call in and ask for some.
George Schilling wrote:Providing water is something new since I started in the sport six years ago. I got into the habit of freezing a dozen or so waters the night before and set them out to defrost as needed. When I worked course I bring 2-3 with me and drank them as they defrosted. Folks from Arizona said they don't provide water. I'm not making a plea one way of the other, but why take a chance that the hosting club will provide it. You know it's going to be hot, bring some water.
-George
I like the idea. If you have 3 full two-driver lines, one could easily just run them until they were done and then run all the other cars.Bill Martin wrote:When you have unanticipated really large run groups, what would you think about having the grid guy split the group into two. Run 1st drivers and half the single drivers until their runs are complete. Then the other half. All the cars are still on grid...not talking a worker change or anything like that. Just keep the number of running cars to a manageable 25-30 so we don't have single driver car guys waiting 30 minutes between runs. Neither helps nor hurts the course workers. Overall time will be unchanged. I just think it would make a fun day funner, and let the single driver car guys run with some heat in their tires.
... I need to learn how to do that!
