Sunday, September 16, 2012
Tour of Britain.
Another great day.
Yet another that I feel sure we'll never get the chance of again.
We have been a small part within the organisation of a top sporting event.
We marshalled crowds at the entrance to Reigate Priory Park where the final stage of The Tour of Britain cycle race began.
It was lots of fun.
Bill and I worked with Donna (timekeeping friend) and John (cyclist and athlete) at the entrance to the park. So we were front line crowd control.
Our job was to direct people, tell them about the route and make sure that nobody without a pass went along the track laid out for officials and cyclists.
Bill and John got moved for a while to guard the VIPs being entertained to drinks and goodies....they didn't get any.
It is a lovely park - we will go back and explore it further.
There were all sorts of activities going on in the park - and thousands of people.
We got a free lunch for our troubles - well a sausage in ciabatta roll and a drink.
We got home in time to see the last hour of the race live.
The result was a perfect ending. Mark Cavendish won the stage - up the steep cobbled hill which is Guildford High Street and Jonathan Tiernen-Locke won the race - the first British rider to win the Tour of Britain.
I had plenty of time to take photos and these can be found on Flickr. Once again too many to put on a blog.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/monklandpaula/
Yet another that I feel sure we'll never get the chance of again.
We have been a small part within the organisation of a top sporting event.
We marshalled crowds at the entrance to Reigate Priory Park where the final stage of The Tour of Britain cycle race began.
It was lots of fun.
Bill and I worked with Donna (timekeeping friend) and John (cyclist and athlete) at the entrance to the park. So we were front line crowd control.
Our job was to direct people, tell them about the route and make sure that nobody without a pass went along the track laid out for officials and cyclists.
Bill and John got moved for a while to guard the VIPs being entertained to drinks and goodies....they didn't get any.
It is a lovely park - we will go back and explore it further.
There were all sorts of activities going on in the park - and thousands of people.
We got a free lunch for our troubles - well a sausage in ciabatta roll and a drink.
We got home in time to see the last hour of the race live.
The result was a perfect ending. Mark Cavendish won the stage - up the steep cobbled hill which is Guildford High Street and Jonathan Tiernen-Locke won the race - the first British rider to win the Tour of Britain.
I had plenty of time to take photos and these can be found on Flickr. Once again too many to put on a blog.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/monklandpaula/
