IM Melbourne

What exactly does the volunteering involve? how do you get in to it? I saw a thread on the general forum about this and said I may think of going to watch as I'm not quite up to IM standard yet but volunteering sounds better - that way I get to be a part of the race too.

Think they will be after volunteers on the website after the details are all worked out.  Volunteering can mean a variety of jobs, and depends on how much time you commit to it.  One job might be doing markings in the morning, helping out in the change tents at T1 and T2, being a 'catcher' at the finish line (this is a great job to get if you can, you get to be part of the excitement of finishing) and various other things during the day.  Some of the roles such as manning the drink stations will go to community groups to raise money for themselves for providing the volunteers for these specific roles so you may want to see if there are any groups that get called on that you may be able to help out, as well as helping out at the IM.

That sounds cool Casie. I'll see what happens. I need to decide whether I want to try another tri of my own - mini-sprint or sprint depending how the first one on Nov 6 goes or help the really tough people with theirs, lol. I'm kind of leaning towards the latter because I can still do another tri myself a week later.

A friend and I are rustling up a team.....I'm excited now. 

Looks like I'll have to get in the pool as I'm doing the swim. Eeek.

A lot of the tri clubs are going to run the drink stations on the run, so I'll be there helping out, even though I get back from Singapore THAT MORNING... Eeep. Going to be a long day!!

Look out for the crazy girls on the CCTS station. That'll be us

Hopefully I'll still be in a state where I can appreciate this!!

Please give me a HTFU though as I pass

Best of luck to everyone competing this coming weekend!!!  I hope it's a fantastic day!

I got to visit Melbourne for a couple weeks just about a year ago and fell in love with the area.  I'm hoping to find some coverage of the race here in the US.

OK, so we got Jo at Aid Station 6 on the bike, Jess with CCTS somewhere...., Tammie at Seaford, Casie at the finish and Joe all over the place as a TO......!

I'll try and remember to shout out to you all, but if I don't and you see 1135, give me a yell.

Good luck to everybody, gonna be a blast! 

OMG such a big day - apologies to not shouting out to everyone!  I saw Yanti and gave her some encouragement at my AID station without knowing it was her - she wasn't looking positive and I'm saying you can do it etc!

Anyway - I was on the Special Needs Bike station so if you had a bag I hope you got it!  I had the honour of handing Crowie his bag and he was politeness in itself and thanked me heartily.  (some of the front running age groupers far from polite!!!)

Anyway - what a day, got home at 1am - my friend finished in 16.18.  cold dark lonely run up Beach Road!

Next year - look out for me I'm so having to do this one!

OMG yesterday was amazing.

CCTS was aid station four, I had a bright blue wig on, and some of the guys were superheros, others dressed up as Tigger and Buzz Lightyear. Please tell me you saw us!!

My boy finished in 12hour 27. He was simply amazing.

He is a mess now, because he hardly trained (yeah I know, jealous, wish I could pull stuff like THAT out of my butt!!) but it was an amazing day.

Another CCTS athlete finished second in her AG and is going to Kona SO EXCITED she did a 9.59.

Can't wait for next year when my friend Anna does her first. And my boy is gonna go for gold and train properly for next year. I want to see what he's made of!

I had an awesome day at the finish line! So proud of you Tammie & Nigel! And everyone else who had their moment up the chute. It was interesting from a volunteers perspective, we copped quite a bit of a spray from some family & friends with regards to the timing/lost property/finding athletes who had finished (not wholly our department). I think there might be a few emails to the race directors, that said even the guys & gals who didn't need our help were thankful of our time and that's what matters. It makes me want to compete next year...