The day before a major tour, the organization brings all volunteers and staff together for multiple meetings to insure we are all on the same page and working together.
This event has 650 folks supporting the efforts of Tour of Missouri and all put together and organized by Medalist Sports http://www.medalistsports.com/ . These guys do a fantastic job at making sure this race goes down the road safe, while at the same time helping local towns and cities create excitement about cycling, health and wellness.
Our day started by going through "In processing" which we sign releases, pick up radios, get housing information and all the technical guides to make sure we are were we need to be each day. After getting that taken care of ....we had a mass moto washing in the back of the hotel.
Moto drivers come from California, Arizona, Utah, Iowa, Philidelphia, Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia....needless to say we all arrive with road grime that....well ...just doesn't look so good in the show!
The meetings started at noon and ran through 3pm. One of my duties is to photograph all moto's with their drivers for insurance purposes. I got most of that taken care of in between meetings. Alex wanted to have a photo driver meeting at 4 here at the hotel...so we could discuss who was on bikes for the week from what press source. I will be carrying Jono all week....be sure to log onto http://www.cyclingnews.com/ for the latest. Alex has Casey Gibson, check out http://www.velonews.com/ for his stuff. Don will be carrying Alan Crawford from Road magazine...and we will also be mixing it up with NBC as they are doing a special on Garmin apparently trying to get some "action" for the first couple of days. We also have Bicyling Magazine in the group, but I am not sure who they are riding with....it will change about 20 times over the week! So, with 2 TV bikes...NBC...5 photo bikes...the boyz in the group are gettin' some press coverage this week! I think I may need to install a cow bar on the front of the GS just to get through the press bikes and peleton!
So anywho...all that out of the way...we are off to St. Joseph for a 12:30pm start in the morning. Jono tells me that the start line is 6 blocks away from where the Pony Express originated...http://www.ci.st-joseph.mo.us/history/ponyexpress.cfm cool huh?!
Till tomorrow....good night!
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