This week in the Ironman 70.3 Traverse City planning process we’re holding our final pre-race agency meeting to make sure all of our pans are ready to go. We’re also dialing in exactly where aid station locations will be, down to the location of each of the tables. Detail is king.
When Do I Work??
I’m lucky enough to have a job where I can work from just about anywhere. Most of the time I work from home. I’m also lucky to have two great daughters, one of which is only 13 weeks old right now, and I also take care of her while I work. Well, lately it’s been more taking care, and much …
Do Not Disturb
For the last 12 weeks it’s been a challenge working from home. I work from a home office, and my wife, Laura, has been home on maternity leave, along with our newborn daughter, Penelope. I’m lucky to have the flexibility and freedom that working from home affords, but over the last three months there hasn’t been much working. It has …
Meetings
We’re barely 24 hours post-Glen Arbor Solstice and I’m already knee-deep in another round of Ironman 70.3 Traverse City meetings. Bike aid station 1 During this round of meetings, we’re finalizing aid station locations for the bike and run courses, resident notification pieces, traffic impact notices, and traffic control signage.
A Little Ironman Mixed In
As I mentioned yesterday, I’m in Traverse City and it’s Glen Arbor Solstice race week. But these days I’m always working on Ironman 70.3 Traverse Citystuff, too. This week is no exception. Tonight (Tuesday) was filled with two township board meetings, and tomorrow morning is a road commission meeting. We’re getting ever closer to getting all the final official approvals …
Sign, Sign, Everywhere a Sign
Today in the life of this Ironman Race Director, I’m hashing out details for the signage plan for Ironman 70.3 Traverse City. Dozens of pre-event notification signs, race day signs, barricades, and hundreds (if not thousands) of cones. I’ve probably got too many screens going on here, but it’s great to have the touch interface of the Surface Go, and …
The Ironman Operations Trifecta
As the race director for Ironman 70.3 Traverse City I’m fortunate to have a strong leadership team around me. I’m not the only one leading up the planning for the race. There are three of us: a regional director, an operations director, and me, the race director. The regional director, Frank, is in charge of about a dozen Ironman and …
Dealing With Disappointment
I was scheduled to travel to Ironman 70.3 St. George in Utah this coming weekend to shadow the race director as part of my training for Ironman 70.3 Traverse City later this summer. I was also planning to attend meetings in Traverse City for said race early next week. It was going to be a seven or eight day trip, and …
Race Manuals
For the first five or so years that Endurance Evolution was in existence, most of the knowledge of the business was in my head, and very little was written down in terms of operational procedures or processes. As time went on, I realized that I needed to be able to hire others to help out, and I needed to be …