Nov. 7th, 2010 Silverman Aid station #10 – The River Mountains Trail Partnership once again sponsored Bike Course Aid Station #10 at the 100.0 mile mark on the 112-mile bike course for the full Triathlon. The station was located at old Vegas Trail and Foothills Dr. where a connector trail drops riders off the RMLT on to Foothills. This year we had a great team of volunteers show up (over 30) and many worked the station all day from set up at 8:00 a.m. to clean up at 4:30 p.m. As the photos will show we had a wild west theme to help create fun and a theme to inspire our riders as they came throught the station.
Silverman Aid Station Wild West Theme 2010
Our first rider showed up at 11:00 a.m. and buzzed through the station without need of aid….a few minutes later the next three or four had passed through. By 11:30 a.m. we had a steady flow of riders all from the half-triathlon ride. At times we had 20 volunteers on the line offering energy bars, gel, water, Gatorade, bananas in a repeat series in case they missed the first hand-off. By early afternoon the wind pick up and blew from the southwest directly into the riders face creating a headwind on a long uphill climb. We started seeing cramping issues among the riders. During the course of the day we saw about five (5) riders drop out at our station, two for mechanical problems, three were physically done for…
Volunteer Cowgirls 2010
