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“Wow, that was a fun race, I really enjoyed the loop “That was a tough race!” These are the comments you hear as you bench race on the way home after enjoying a weekend in the desert doing what you love most. Spending time with family and friends is the best.

We all love a great race that challenges us mentally and physically. The 2-5 hours spent racing on race day seems like a lot. Behind the scenes the race continues long after the checkered flag is waved for the finishers. In fact the work to put on a desert race is 24-7-365. Permits, course finding-mapping, setup, take down, results, info before and after a race.

Every club welcomes volunteers on race day to help with the logistics of putting on a race, THANK YOU! However, a club needs club members to put on their races. NMRC meetings, BLM meetings, Club meetings, boring!!!! Necessary evils. If the same person or people put on the races year after year they WILL get burned out and walk away from racing. It’s too much work and very little reward sometimes, especially when the complaints roll in. When that person/people walk away, who takes their place, did that knowledge get passed down? How do you set up course, how does the finish board work, who will spend all their vacation time to setup and take down course? Who will find race course and gps it, and get it turned in to the BLM? Why are the entry fees so high? Can you answer that, why can’t we just race the same trails we ride? Can you answer those questions? 

When you first started racing you would show up and race, then go home, wow that was about all most people could handle, it was a lot of work. Never thought about the course setup and club work that went into it. Most questions people ever needed an answer to were usually answered by someone who had done this most of their life. We encourage everyone one to join a club and get involved for at least 2 years. Then you will truly understand what it takes and you can help the sport be passed on to the next generation.