Merchants Of Dirt Podcast

Merchants of Dirt Episode #39 There are some hidden challenges that hide within the multi-day slogfest that few one-and-done race directors have experienced. Directing a Multi-Day Race The multi-day race is a special kind of challenge that requires more than one plan, better communications, and hopefully a few hours of sleep. In this episode, I’m going to give you the five (5) takeaways I learned after directing a Multi-Day racing event that include: Race Day Plans Change -- Both Days Keeping Everyone in Town Keeping the Venue Alive Volunteer Burnout Race Director Burnout These are the hard lessons learned when the complexity is doubled and the problems that emerge are so unique that you will never see them coming. That is until you are in the middle of the chaos. After doing a dozen of these multi-day races I have a perspective that few single day race directors have the chance to experience. That means that if you’re a one-and-done promoter, or you’re thinking about tackling the multi-day race format, the