Volunteer for the Arlington Fun Ride?

[Mark Blacknell]

Hi, all – just like last year, the Arlington Fun Ride could use your help in ensuring that the ride is a safe and enjoyable experience for all. We need ride marshals, rest stop help, and perhaps a brave soul or two who’s willing to step in anywhere needed on Saturday. In return, you’ll get a 2012 Arlington Fun Ride technical t-shirt AND the satisfaction of knowing you’re helping grow Arlington’s most family-friendly ride.

Fun Ride marshals will need to show up around 7:30a, and can expect to be involved until 11:30 or so. Rest stop staffing depends on the spot (Ballston and Crystal City need the most help, right now), but can start as early as 9a and end as late as noon (sort of a rolling 2 hour window). We could also use a couple of gentle marshals for the kids ride, which will roll out at 10:30 or so.

Interested? You *could* use the form here, but it’s probably much easier to just drop me a PM here or send me an email (my initials @ blacknell.net). Let me know what you’d like to do, and include your phone number (I don’t plan to call/use it – just keeping it for emergencies on the day of the ride).

Thanks!

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[Megabeth]

I had a great time marshalling last year, meeting new folks, riding like a lead duck with little ducklings filing behind me. Wish I was going to be in town this year (work trip, boo). So, someone will have to take my place. Dirt needs someone to ride behind and blow the vuvuzela at…

[JustinW]

Signed up to volunteer and awaiting “the call”….

[dasgeh]

It promises to a be a great time. Especially the family ride. And if you’re a marshall for the family ride, you don’t have to show up at 7:30am…

[rcannon100]

I’m looking forward to volunteering too. 7.30 am? M’eh. It will be good to be on the trail biking there before the trails get too crowded with weekend traffic. No wait, WE will be the weekend traffic!

Oh, hey, and its Octoberfest in Shirlington afterwards!!! http://www.capcitybrew.com/oktoberfest12.php

[Mark Blacknell]

So it turns out that the AFR is *well* on its way to blowing past last year’s #s, and so I’d like to err on the side of caution by recruiting a few more ride marshalls. Any takers? Ride marshalls are best thought of as shepherds – they just apply the occasional light touch in order to keep the herd moving safely, and if things go wrong, they know who to call (me). Interested?

(Everyone who has already signed up to volunteer will be hearing from me later today. Thanks!)

[ShawnoftheDread]

@Mark Blacknell 32771 wrote:

So it turns out that the AFR is *well* on its way to blowing past last year’s #s, and so I’d like to err on the side of caution by recruiting a few more ride marshalls. Any takers? Ride marshalls are best thought of as shepherds – they just apply the occasional light touch in order to keep the herd moving safely, and if things go wrong, they know who to call (me). Interested?

(Everyone who has already signed up to volunteer will be hearing from me later today. Thanks!)

I would, but I’ll have a kid in tow for the ride.

[chris_s]

@ShawnoftheDread 32772 wrote:

I would, but I’ll have a kid in tow for the ride.

Ditto; also likely a wife in tow for the after-ride-festivities.

[dasgeh]

@ShawnoftheDread 32772 wrote:

I would, but I’ll have a kid in tow for the ride.

So sign up to marshall the family ride! I’m leading it, 8-months pregnant with a toddler, so it’ll be a gentle ride.

[ShawnoftheDread]

@dasgeh 32775 wrote:

So sign up to marshall the family ride! I’m leading it, 8-months pregnant with a toddler, so it’ll be a gentle ride.

Because I don’t know what “later in the morning” means for the family ride start. After the main ride is over, or sometime earlier than that? We want to do the long ride.

[Mark Blacknell]

@ShawnoftheDread 32772 wrote:

I would, but I’ll have a kid in tow for the ride.

Pssh, use him/her as a wheel stop in case of emergency!

(I figure if I keep saying stuff like this, I’ll never be asked to be involved again . . .)

~

But seriously, thanks. We could use more marshalls, but we’re not dangerously low or anything.

[rcannon100]

I believe later is 10 am.

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[ShawnoftheDread]

@rcannon100 32784 wrote:

I believe later is 10 am.

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Thanks. I think that’s too close for comfort to plan on riding one and marshalling the second. The kid will want her rest stops.

[dasgeh]

@ShawnoftheDread 32789 wrote:

Thanks. I think that’s too close for comfort to plan on riding one and marshalling the second. The kid will want her rest stops.

The family ride leaves at 10:30am, but doing both isn’t really an option unless you’re fast and don’t dally at pit stops. You could do the hill-avoidance route: go on the main ride, enjoy the CC (and maybe Rosslyn) pit stop, then come back on MVT to do the family ride…

[jopamora]

How far is the Family Ride at 10:30?

[Arlingtonrider]

Mark,

Just sent you a PM to make sure you have me on your list.

Kathy

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