Date: Wednesday July 25th, 2014
Subject: Afton Trail Run Volunteer Email 3 – 2014
Hi All,
This is our third and likely last group email to volunteers prior to the 21st Annual Afton Trail Run on Saturday July 5th, 2014 – if you missed any of the previous emails and would like to get caught up, you can do so HERE https://www.aftontrailrun.com/volunteer-updates/ – we know it is quite a bit of information, but please take the time to read everyhing below.
Again, thanks to all of you in advance – 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 125 volunteers helping at this years race! We have reached our field limit of 600 runners and will oversell by a few spots, registration closes this coming weekend. We will be hosting runners from 20 states and Canada!
Volunteer assignments have been made and are available HERE: https://www.aftontrailrun.com/volunteer-assignment/
A list of supplies we provide at the aid stations can be found HERE https://www.aftontrailrun.com/volunteers/resources/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 freet to snack on aid station food as well!
Never worked an aid statio?n – this is helpful: HERE https://www.aftontrailrun.com/volunteers/resources/aid-stations-101-2/
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.
If anyone assigned to an aid station or the finish line is an above average photographer and has a decent DSLR camera please let us know – we would love to have you shoot pictures for us from your aid station.
Your volunteer shirts will be sent out to the aid stations or will be available at your volunteer position. 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 by 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!
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.