Let There Be...

For the race, we have upward of one-hundred-fifty volunteer workers register to serve as safety marshals, timing and scoring, technical inspectors, emergency-vehicle drivers, pit and grid marshals, and starters, as well as folks who act as general help running about delivering lunches, ice, water, and anything else that needs doing.

To facilitate our registration process and give us a place for our meetings and social events, the track provides a very large tent for our use. They provide the light fixtures but I have to run the power cords for our lights and coffee apparatus (apparatuses? apparatii??).

The lights are usually big, square, obnoxious spot lights. Honestly, I loathe them and won't turn them on if I can help it - I'd rather work in the dark...and anyway, it's not really dark there, ever, because there are plenty of light poles around to lend a little illumination from a distance.

This year? Check out our lights:

So - we have a huge tent full of sleepy volunteers drinking coffee that will peel the paint off a naval vessel (in the morning) or muddy, sweaty, tired volunteers drinking beer (in the evening)...and chandeliers to light them on their way.

Awesome.