The first order of business is to find sponsors who are willing to contribute prizes to this series. One suggestion is to have each club who is sponsoring a MTB race contribute a prize to the series; please indicate if your club is interested in contributing a prize
Participation Rules:
- Participants must hold a full race license
- There will be two category of prizes: 18+ and U17 (If Olympia put together a Chris King package it would not be quite right to see it go to 9 year old Stephanie to put on her pink "My L'il Pony" bike - having said that the kids deserve to have prizes as well).
- Participants will have their name entered into the draw for prizes for every MCA sanctioned mountain bike race (Cup, enduro, downhill, event)
- The draw for the prizes will take place at the MCA AGM
- Olympia Cycling Club
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The road participation series has been a huge success. This was new for me as I have not seen this in other provinces before. That being said, the idea of the participation series is to encourage people to be involved, which is biased towards athletes who are already well established with their involvement, not new riders or peripheral participants. The road version benefited the provincial program athletes as they simply participated in more races than most other people. How do we skew this to new rider who we are trying to attract to be more involved, not just continue to support riders who are already heavily involved.
ReplyDeleteBut no one knew about it until the season was over, so I don't think it actually did it's job to attract racers.
ReplyDeleteIt needed to be communicated. It was a nice bonus after the fact.