[NCNCA] Women's Races

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Promoters would MUCH rather have pre-entry numbers instead of a surprise day-of-event rush - And that's primarily when poor pre-race weather conditions can affect events. Pre-registration enables organizers to plan and if a promoter ain't got no plan - best advice, brothers and sisters, is to RUN!?

 If expensive-to-operate events like Cat's Hill and Burlingame and Giro and Carrera have poor pre-reg. numbers they still have very significant?expenses that cannot necessarily be reduced or eliminated on race day if small fields enter day-of-event. Police services, medical, porta-potties, permit fees, officials, prizes - they don;t necessarily get reduced if the week prior it's raining and competitors choose to stay home on race day.?Your overall budget is predicated significantly on entry fee revenue, among other sources?- and if you can;t get a firm estimate on minimum numbers of competitors, my Grandpa used to say, "You don;t need to go to Reno to gamble". ?

Organizers want to be able to?provide staff and services?according to expected numbers. When the Golden Gate Bridge had it's 50th anniversary they opened the bridge to pedestrians for just the 2nd time in history. They had no way of predicting how many would show - and then they had the phenomena of the GG Bridge flattening in the center due to the enormously unexpected weight of the gazillions of people who decided they would be part of history. 



Tom Simpson
Pilarcitos Cyclesports
732 Fairfield Road
Burlingame, CA 94010
www.pilarcitos.com
info at pilarcitos.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Warren Geissert <warren at usvh.com>
To: ncnca at ncnca.org
Sent: Thu, 1 May 2008 12:19 pm
Subject: Re: [NCNCA] Women's Races



A promoter won't choose to include, or not include a racing group next year 
based on pre-reg numbers. It's based on the number of riders who are 
registered before the race starts. If a relatively high percentage of riders 
in a group register for a criterium or road race on race-day instead of 
pre-registering they pay more in entry fees, and that's better for the race 
organizer.

-Warren Geissert 

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