Medals news, and Lincoln progress

2 pieces of news today.

I’ve placed the order for medals this morning with Zerowaste and am waiting for proofs of the new design. I’m very excited to work with Zerowaste for our medals, as it does let us wait until nearer the event before we have to finalise numbers. Even so, there’s only so much risk I can take, so although I’ve ordered 120 medals, which is about 10% more than I have entries right now, I’m anticipating a bit of an uptick as event day approaches, but if you enter after all 120 spaces are gone, I can’t guarantee you any medals.

We event organisers need to accept that this is the new normal as far as us small events are concerned, and this means that we can’t necessarily come up with huge outlay (several hundred pounds for medals) 12-16 weeks before the event as is the case with the well-known local medal distributors, who have their medals manufactured in China and ship them across the world.

Next thing for me to worry about is the fun activity of finding goodies at knock-down prices…!

As regards Lincoln, all is going smoothly, although they’ve asked me to send a revised risk assessment including mitigation for towpath congestion. Those of you who ran day 2 of the Marabank will remember that I had to add such mitigation to the risk assessment anyway following what we’ll call “community consultation”, and basically I’ve just had to confirm that you won’t have right of way on the towpath, and I won’t block it with a table or signage – pretty normal stuff to be fair.

Still entries for all events, get them while they’re hot…