The highlight of my Masters week was seeing the CRMCC community spirit in full force with around 20 folks (14 members, 2 former members and 4 committee members) show up to the Dairy Flat Road course on Saturday for an high intensity pruning session (the old timers call this the ‘working bee’). With the temperatures nearing 30 deg C at 2pm, this was bound to be a zone 4 workout. The running joke was that there was a bigger turnout of the pruning party than the actual racing numbers! We are taking this so seriously that the handicapper and I are plotting and devising a wood clearing handicap and a pruning championship for next season. Not only were there many hands, but the various contraptions such as diesel generators, telescopic high-angle electric pruners meant that we were able to transform the course in 2 hours. The racers will have noticed the next day how well groomed the course was, and this is partly the reason why the pace was so high. Many of you who raced will have noticed the incessant foot and bike traffic of onlookers (I had plenty of time to notice this as I was off the bike of my bunch a lot!), and we were able to generate interest in at least one of them, and this has given us an idea to put up some recruitment posters next time. Thank you to all involved for making a great race of the fabled Dairy Flat Rd, particularly Rob Langridge for organising the working party, Damian Copeland for directing the race, Gavin Stephens for driving the van, and returning member Paul Connor for monitoring the northern turn point. The next instalment of this race is going to be different (and fun) I am told, so stay tuned for details.
The new committee is settling into their roles. Chris Nolan has stepped up again to look after the van, while Ben Healy has offered to learn the dark art of RMS software development under former member Ian McVay (there is a rumour of a comeback). David Buckley joined the committee at the recent AGM and has since agreed to take on the role of ETC coordination and he will conduct an inventory of our equipment ahead of our road season where we rely on our courses to be set up in advance with signage that conforms to the approved temporary traffic management plan in place. We are still looking for someone to take on Membership officer, with the peak work expected in October (with the new crit season and reduced membership fee), and around mid-December with renewal of membership. Please contact me for a more detailed role description if interested.
Allan Bontjer has been our long suffering IT guy and we have just completed a domain name change from our re-branding from Vets to CRMCC. This affects our email addresses (with the older ones forwarding mail the new ones).
Our contacts are as follows:
Race.committee@crmcc.org.au – everything to do with race registration, payment, volunteering for races, points etc
membership@crmcc.org.au – everything to do with new members, trial members, renewal of membership, general inquiries about membership
TheBleat@crmcc.org.au – contributions for the Bleat on a weekly basis
Kind regards
Conan president@crmcc.org.au
