Revision as of 19:07, 20 March 2018

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Rodeo

Here are some notes about running this activity:

1. Here is a document we used to coordinate the 2010 event. Use it as a starting point and update it with what worked best for you.
2. Get permission to use the FUMC parking lot and determine what obstacles are there (church buses).
3. The check-in process (tech inspection) will be your bottle neck. Have several adults to check bikes in parallel.
4. Suggest moving the slalom course to 1.5 to 2 lines apart, especially for the bigger bikes. It was harder for them to make that tight of a turn.
5. Definitely need water/cups, shelters, tables, chalk to mark sections, Boy Scouts that need service hours to help setup and run the events.
6. Block off areas you don't want vehicles to go. Only use one entrance/exit and park vehicles to block access.

Bike Rodeo Notes:
Pony Express Activity Revamp - I ran this in 2012 and it was the SLOWEST of the activities. We had the boys ride to a spot, fill a pack with "mail", and ride it back, all timed. This caused a major back-up in the lines, but also detracted from the fun quotient.

My suggestion is that this should be an active relay involving more boys. Set up a circuit with a series of stops, perhaps around the entire Rodeo zone. Have a pile of mail or some very small boxes/parcels at each station. Set up two teams to compete, but run them in opposite directions around the circuit. At each station they must drop off their parcels and pick up the parcels already there. When they reach the starting/ending point, they hand off the pack to the next rider on their team, and the relay continues. To prevent collisions, it will be important to mark the circuit with chalk and enforce which side each team should ride on, and to have the Start/Finish line end both teams side-by-side rather than head-to-head. It will help to have separate containers of "mail" at each station (marked Team 1 & 2) so there is no mix-ups or sloppy deliveries. To make the event more about biking than pack-filling, I would set up the circuit with larger distances between stations. It is possible the Tigers and Wolves would use a separate smaller circuit than the Bears and Webelos. This could be a good challenge game between Dens or between the age groups.