2025 Event 8: Darley Moor - Sunday 24th August

Please note that racing on Sunday will now start at 11:00am, slightly earlier than previously advertised, to allow a slightly less hectic schedule. The provisional race programme is now:

Meet & Greet: 10:00
Track access: 10:30-16:00
Racing starts: 11:00

Race 1: 11:00 – 5-lap race, slower riders, clockwise
Race 2: 11:45 – 5-lap race, faster riders, clockwise
Race 3: 12:15 – 5-lap race, slower riders, clockwise
Race 4: 13:00 – 5-lap race, faster riders, clockwise
Race 5: 13:30 – 5-lap race, slower riders, antiCW
Race 6: 14:15 – 5-lap race, faster riders, antiCW
Race 7: 14:45 – 5-lap race, slower riders, antiCW
Race 8: 15:30 – 5-lap race, faster riders, antiCW

The cafe will be open from 9:00am to serve breakfast. It usually closes around 3:00pm.

Kim, Natalya. Huge thanks to the amazing TimeTeam as always. Hope you're slowly returned to normal operating temperatures...

Thought you'd like to to see the note from Ian Fards on FB:

Thanks for posting that on Russell. I really appreciate that from Ian Eff. 

I had a good chat with a few folk this weekend including Nigel about things we can do easily to improve experience for attenders (managing expectations if nothing else) as well as encourage more people to volunteer to make a day of races happen so it's not always the committee or the same few people but more people see what it's like from the other side of the track and perhaps we get different ideas tried and more recognition of how much work it is. 

I was thinking some guidelines for "race coordinators" which include:

* Basic MUSTS including timing limitations, safety etc

* Some ideas of what race formats e.g. criteriums, fixed-laps, time-trials and sprints etc that coordinators could choose and their pros/cons based on type of track and type of cycles etc. 

* Things that coordinators should consider - again track and rider types, variation/inclusivity, timing considerations and so on. 

* Things that we could seek on-the-day volunteers to do like helping people count laps, marshal dodgy horseists etc. 

* Info that needs to be said for each type of race at the start e.g. flags/bells or no-flags/bells (and why). 

* Compile a list of people willing to mentor/support a new race-coordinator-volunteer and their comms spaces e.g. phone/video/email/Facebook/here/RFC1149 etc. 

I figure if I start writing something it gets past the 'starting initiation issue' and then once I have a draft, I can open it up for comments and make it something the community feels we own AND the committee are obviously happy with.