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Running Sweeper Rota...
Now the club has grown in size and we get a lot more new members, regular
running with new or slower members of the club is falling to the same few
people. So we need Members’ help and are going to suggest we try a rota system
(for a trial period, until the AGM in November) so that every person in the club
who has been a member for more than a year takes a turn in taking out the new
and/or slower runners.
This rota will operate as follows:
1. Every week it is one person's job to be the slow runner volunteer. It
doesn't matter ifit's a handicap week, or no-one new comes, or the new runners
look like Paula Radcliffe, one person gets the job. This avoids the "well,
they look fast enough to keepwith Fred, so I don't have to worry" scenario.
2. A sheet will be made listing every qualifying member and this has been
randomly sorted. Each week the first person at the top of the list who is there
that night will be the volunteer. When you've done your stint, your name is
crossed off. Of course, if you are injured, or feeling lazy, or fancy the new
girl/boy you can volunteer, and then you've done your bit. You can cry off with
a valid excuse, (the week before a marathon you have been training for all year
for example) but this puts you back at the top of the list. This sheet will be
put on the notice board in the entry hall of the club for all to see.
3. What’s your job? Your job is ...
A standard week:
You are taking out a new/slow runners’ group, and you run a fixed route.
You drop them back at the club and your job is done. The fixed route is the
handicap route because then the new person has run it and will know the course.
Your job is to take the new runner(s)/ slow runner(s) round the course at their
pace. No runner should ever be left on their own, however much they may protest
that they are ‘okay’.
Handicap week:
Anyone who doesn't know the course, and new runners, go round with the
volunteer to run the course. They aren't timed.. The volunteer is responsible
for sweeping and will get points for doing this (once only), as with
timekeeping.
A Quiet week:
A week might occur when no-one new turns up, or they look extremely fit and
have clearly run a lot. Lucky volunteer! He is still there and he still has a
job volunteer goes round as back marshal on the slow group. This might seem a
bit pointless but the system will break down if people get a chance to make a
judgement call on whether a slow volunteer is needed.
That’s it!
We would ask you ALL to support us in this. We expect that each member will
need to volunteer only 30 minutes of their time about once a year, and don’t
forget, if you want a longer run, you can still go out afterwards. We must make
new runners welcome, as without them, the club will one day cease to exist. We
all like using the club and we can all help to ensure its future.
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