Call for Volunteers and Baked Goods

Volunteer Coordinators

General Volunteering -George Lecours georgelecours@charter.net
Food - Emily Strong - estrong2349@yahoo.com

Our Applefest Half Marathon most likely will sell again this year. All of us in the Gate City Striders and our loyal community volunteers can be proud of our accomplishment of making Applefest one of the best fall races in the USA.

This is the club’s largest fundraiser, which allows us to make sizable contributions to local area community groups in the area in which live and run.

You, our club members and interested community based volunteers, have made Applefest go so smoothly in the past and we need your help again to keep Applefest the event people talk about all year .

Get this great volunteer shirt

What can Volunteers do?

You would be amazed at how easy and effective your help can be. While other assignments are listed below, a very important one is mentioned here. Quality races don't just happen. In fact one of the most common failings of a road race is something that Runners notice and often distracts from all the other good that race does.

Lack of attention to the runners while they are on the course is bad form. Having a volunteer noticeably at all course turns is SO helpful and SO effective. Please think about bringing a friend to help in this area.

Race Day Assignments: There are many things to do on race day. Come early, leave early, come late stay late. There is a time and job for everyone. There are jobs which require heading up a small crew and there are jobs on the crews. Here are just some of the jobs that need to be done on race weekend.

Friday -Day and Evening
*Picking up food, water, drinks and other race equipment.
*Manning registration tables and shirt and gear bag pickup

Saturday - RACE Day
*A critical LATE assignment is course and high school venue clean up. We always leave this as an adhoc task but some key people to work on this during the race and after is very much needed. We hire the trucks but need the hands.

*Manning registration tables and shirt and gear bag pickup

*Start/Finish line setup

*Parking and traffic control

*Course setup, traffic cones, mile markers, arrow signs.

*Bus monitors

*Water stop help

*Clydesdale and Filly weigh-in

*Hand out water at stops 2, 12 and finish line.

*Help in food tent

Baked Goods: You can either help with the event or by baking some offerings for our fabulous refreshment tent. We need all the cookies, banana breads, etc. members can donate. Please drop off baked goods at the food tent before 10am on race morning. Alternate arrangements for food drop off will be posted closer to race day If you would like to volunteer yourself or know of other individual or groups who would like to volunteer please contact our volunteer coordinator.

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