Date: Tuesday June 21st, 2016
Subject: Afton Trail Run Volunteer Email 2 2016
Hi All,
First and foremost a huge thank you for volunteering for the 23rd Annual Afton Trail Run on Saturday July 2nd, 2016 – you are part of a really special team, if you have not helped at Afton before, you will know what I mean by the end of the day on Saturday. We are blessed to have about 130 volunteers helping at this years race! We will be hosting a very talented field of around 650 runners representing 20 states and five countries!
Volunteer assignments have been made and are available HERE:
https://www.aftontrailrun.com/volunteer-assignments/
Please be sure to sort the list by volunteer position and by your name as you may have been assigned to more than one job. If for some reason you see something out of place or something does not work for you, please be sure to let us know – if we did not give you enough or gave you too much please drop us a line so we can adjust accordingly. Beyond your specific volunteer assignment(s), anyone that has the energy to hang out at the end of the day and help us get packed up and loaded up is certainly encouraged and welcome to do so – the bulk of this work is between 2:00 and 6:00PM! Also, we won’t turn down help at our home in Hastings for the big unload and cleanup on Sunday – it always proves to be an entertaining day, let us know if you want to stop down (9am – 2pm or so)… we will provide all the PBJs and Mike and Ikes you can eat!
Specific information about your volunteer assignment, directions and more can be found HERE https://www.aftontrailrun.com/volunteer-jobs/ A list of supplies we provide at the aid stations can be found HERE https://www.aftontrailrun.com/aid-station-supplies/ feel free to put your personal touches on your aid station by bringing additional fun foods, decorations, cow-bells etc. – be sure to bring personal items you may need such as bug spray, rain gear, snacks, a chair etc. – feel free to snack on aid station food as well! Never worked an aid station? – this is helpful: HERE https://www.aftontrailrun.com/aid-stations-101/ Please be sure to read up about the race on the website paying specific attention to the race Info pages and have some general knowledge about the race, this makes you a good resource for runners and other volunteers.
Some new / special information about parking this year can be found HERE – please review. https://www.aftontrailrun.com/wp-content/uploads/Afton-Trail-Run-Parking-Map.pdf
Your volunteer shirts will be sent out to the aid stations or will be available at your volunteer position. If you didn’t get a shirt or need a different size, please do NOT be shy about asking for it. Be sure to come up and eat lunch (burgers and veggie burgers) after you are done volunteering!
Finally, if it looks like your aid station / volunteer position has “too many” people, don’t fret… we all want to be super useful / helpful / effective and shoulder a big load but one of the reasons the Afton Trail Run has a great reputation both locally and nationally is that we have one of the greatest volunteer forces of any trail race / ultra anywhere. It is a very long day and having a lot of people volunteering helps take pressure off of everyone and allows people to take a breaks from time to time and ensures that runners are getting great personal attention – this is huge. We need people to be as fresh as possible at the end of the day when it is time to do even more hard work and get packed up and cleaned up!
Aid Station Captains
Aid Station 1/2: Brian Klug
Aid Station 3/4: Joe Lang
Aid Station 5: Jeffrey Swainhart
Aid Station 6: Kelly Mortenson
If anyone has any questions please let us know. Thanks again for giving your time and helping to make the Afton Trail Run what it is!
Thank You,
John Storkamp
Race Director
racedirector@aftontrailrun.com