The weekends are just far too short! Especially when you spend the main part of a day volunteering. Yesterday my cycling club held it's annual track cycling event at the indoor velodrome at DISC (Darebin International Sports Complex). It's indoors but is essentially a giant tin shed, so you can imagine that on a 36C degree day it gets damn hot in there!! I reckon I sweated out around 10kg's of liquid and after being there for over 8hrs I was knackered! I love doing it, but it is quite exhausting being a commissaire as you have to be constantly paying attention to what's going on for the entire time!
Today it's forecasted to be 37 so I'm keeping myself indoors!
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Sounds fun in the heat...not! I asked before as an Anon (sorry I didn't have a blog identity then...LOL) what does a Commissaire do...?
It sucked big time! I do enjoy it though when it's not so hot.
A commissaire is a qualified cycling judge/official so it could be watching them while on the track/road for illegal moves, judging finishes, timekeeping etc etc
Cool...but concentration in the heat would be shyteful. Thanks for the explanation.
Correct, which makes it even more exhausting! Especially for over 8 hrs!
But you know, if people didn't put their hands up to help out the events wouldn't happen and I figure one day I might be back racing again and will appreciate it all :)
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