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On Design

 Jeff Henderson, RD of the Musselman Tri, authored an insightful newbie race director's diary in 2003. He begins a new set of installments: A chronicle of what he's learned in the intervening 7 years.
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The Seven Days of Mussel

 Saturday the race site needs to rise from the earth, and each athlete has approximately thirty questions they would like to ask, preferably now. But as my wife often tells me, I signed up for the job.
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Musselman by the numbers

 Attention budding race directors: Here's yet another attempt at quantifying how much it costs to put on a triathlon, and what it breaks down to by line item.
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Aid stations

 Aid stations can be cost centers, profit centers, or neutral centers. No matter of the size of your race, they can be done well, and cheaply. I like to think of them as stationary parade floats.
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Traffic plan

 Want to be a race director? Here's the skill of it: mapping out your traffic plan. Regrettably, even the casual racer discerns when an RD gave his traffic plan short shrift.
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Blame China if your rack wobbles

 Have you ever considered where bike racks come from? I hadn't, until I decided to run a triathlon. Now I suddenly need a million of them, and sadly they don't show up in the Sears catalog.
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The Seven Nags

 The sponsorship tactics for the Musselman Tri could have been lifted straight from Kids as Customers, in which James McNeal classifies juvenile nagging tactics into seven major categories.
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Five minutes with The Donald

 I wage battle with one of our committee members to see who can email the other fastest when we get a new entry. He's ahead, and we are both pathetic.
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Three queries for a hay bale

 The website is purring. I've got a Bike Coordinator, Run Coordinator, Safety Coordinator, and probably a Coordinator Coordinator working away at raceday strategies.
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RD Diary: Willy Loman, Triathlon Peddler

 Getting sponsors. Yes, the task every race director looks forward to. If, that is, your favorite word to hear is, "No." This assumes you actually get any word at all in response to your supplications.
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RD Diary: One Million Revolutions

 I have made small in-roads toward learning what it means to serve others, but have not done as much as I should. The Musselman Triathlon is a chance to give something back. But to whom, and how?