May 6 Road Committee Meeting

I am proposing our next Road Committee Meeting for May 6, 5:30 p.m. at the MCA.

We had an excellent opening to the season this past weekend as everyone has probably heard.

Another very positive development was that we had a good turnout for the commissaire course. Thank you to the clubs who had people come out. We really appreciate it. Hopefully people will follow up with the “real life” training part of it as well.

The MCA has funding available now to send Arlene to National Commissaire Training so that she will be able to train people up to certification as well. That gives MB two people who can train and is a major advantage to us.

I can also advise you that we have ordered another set of numbers and pinnies due to some concerns I have about durability. Ultimately we have a new supplier and they cost a lot less (even with two orders) than last year. I want to make sure our numbers last through to the cross season so this will ensure we are ready to go for the end of the season.

Given that I think it is time for another road committee meeting.

The agenda is as follows:

1. Provincial Championships – Currently there is no single club which wanted to take this event on. The decision was previously made at the committee level at scheduling time to use the Wawanesa course. I think that should stay the same. What I would like to do is actually have one club as the “organizer” for our purposes and then have each club provide two volunteers for the race. If we do this there is very little “Cost” to each team, and realistically we can probably do it without involving any racers such that they would miss the event.

We will have some further discussions about it at the meeting;

2. We need to make sure the schedule is moving ahead as planned (I realize it is fairly front heavy and we will have had three races by the time the meeting takes place) but we need to firm up the Darlingford race plans, and the possibility of Lifesport taking on one more race.

3. Cyclocross – We need to discuss the cross cup, if there will be a formal one this year, and if so what the rules will be. Last race we did not discuss this because there were not enough club reps who are holding cross races so we decided to defer the discussion. Hopefully there will be more this time.

4. MCA Website. We have the opportunity to edit the Road and Cross side of the page to make it as cool, or not, as we want If there is anything anyone wants me to add then I can do so (within reason).

5. Any other item anyone would like to add to the agenda.


Thank you for your consideration of this matter. If you WILL BE ATTENDING please respond to advise. Thank you.

Steven Johnston