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New Rider Info Projet
Tue, 10/18/2005 - 1:12pm
Based on feedback from new racer surveys last year and this year I think NCNCA needs to put together a comprehensive web page or FAQ for people thinking about getting into racing and people who have just taken out a racing license. Some of the topics that might be covered are.
1) Finding a club
2) Why join a club
3) The basics to know before getting into a race
Basic Skills
Skills Clinics
4) Types of races
Road events - TTs, RRs, Crits
Track
Cross
MTB
5) Buying a license
6) Where to find race Info
7) How to Register for a race
8) Race Day pre-race
Checking in a Reg table
How to properly pin on your number
Warming-up
9) What you might expect during the race
10) Post race
Warm-down
Checking results/protesting results
11) Basic training Info
12) Upgrading
And what ever else I've missed above that people thing a new racer needs to know. I'm looking for people who want to be part of this project. New riders can suggest topics that we need to include and possible input on what needs to be included. I also need more experienced riders and coaches who can help supply the information we will provide. Hopefully by the start of the new year we can have a web page or a FAQ file ready to go to help the new racers next year.
If anyone is interested in helping out let me know.
Casey
Garrett Lau wrote:I'm sure you already know that practically all of this information is already on ncnca.org, in the first menu item.
The problem is that the Info currently available isn't well organized and it is spread out in multi locations. The New rider Info project will be more like a FAQ which will put links to existing Info in one place so riders will only have to look in one sport for answers to most/all their questions. Also people tend to have short attention spans so changing the format of the available information to a FAQ style where they can find the answer to a specific question instead of digging through a entire document will probably help more people.
I'm sure you already know that practically all of this information is already on ncnca.org, in the first menu item.
How about if we have everyone just post their contributions here? :)