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2012 Team Photo is available....
The SCC 2012 Team Photo taken on 20-Apr-2012 by F. Carter Smith is available for your perusal at the SCC Photo Repository (click here).
There are two versions of the team photo in the photo repository. The one on the left is 7.85 MB. The one on the right is 4.19 MB.
Contact me if you have photos of any SCC events you would like to share with the club (email: w.b.vandermeer@gmail.com).
The clothing incentive spreadsheet has been updated with all known information to date. It includes data for those volunteering at tonight’s Pasta Dinner and this weekend during the MS150 ride if you were signed up as of last night. If you have just added your name to the volunteer list today – this list will not reflect that information.
Please see the updated spreadsheet at the following weblink: Link
All clothing will be at the Pasta Dinner this afternoon beginning at 6:00pm at the Sugar Land Forum. We are still asking folks to abide by the previously posted guideline whereby if you collected new design clothing last year to hold off until after the MS weekend. This will allow those who are new to the club to collect the team gear and will assure that everyone has a chance to sport the team apparel during the weekend. The only exception to this is with the new SCC vests. We have plenty of those items on hand and they were not available last year.
If you are volunteering during the weekend, Alexandra Irady will be coordinating the effort to get your SCC Apres Shirt to you. Please work with her and/or the coordinator for the weekend location at which you are volunteering to obtain your shirt. Each person is only allowed to collect ONE Apres Shirt for volunteering. If you are working at multiple locations throughout the weekend – only one Apres Shirt. If you have already collected your Apres Shirt via the incentive process – you will not get another one for volunteering during the weekend. If you collect your Apres Shirt for the weekend and subsequently try to collect one that you have earned via the incentive process – you will be denied. No double-dipping allowed on the free Apres Shirts…..unless you purchase extras.
I will also have remnants of the previous 2 designs of clothing on hand at the Pasta Dinner. This is another opportunity to get some very fairly priced gear and help reduce the inventory that is occupying a part of my home.
As is usually the case – the level of frenzy at tonight’s clothing session will be quite high. We ask that you be patient and work with our assistants to make sure the process is as smooth as possible. Your help in this matter will go a long way.
After the Pasta Dinner, I will take all clothing back home and reconcile inventory again. I will also update the spreadsheet for those folks who collect items tonight. All clothing and an updated spreadsheet will be back at BWF tomorrow, Friday, morning at 10:00 for another opportunity to collect clothing before the weekend ride.
Once the weekend has passed – we will allow all clothing to be available to everyone.
CLOTHING UPDATE - April 13th
Clothing incentive sheet has been updated. (Click here)
CLOTHING UPDATE - April 10th
Nothing seems to be simple this year.
One of our female members stopped by BWF yesterday to collect her cycling jersey and to everyone’s surprise….. the jersey is long-sleeved. No – it’s not a jacket either. It is made from the waffle-type material and has pockets on the back. Just has long sleeves instead of standard short sleeves like the regular club cut women’s jerseys usually have. We received a total of 50 of these erroneous items in our last order. All women’s jerseys on hand are incorrect. This was the first time one of the women’s jerseys was actually removed from a bag to look at it specifically. I just assumed they would be standard club cut jerseys as in the past. All women’s jerseys received on the last order are like this. This is my fault for not verifying the order in full and I apologize to all potential women’s jersey recipients.
As such, I collected the women’s jersey bin from BWF yesterday afternoon and brought them all to my house. This was a precautionary measure to keep others from picking up these erroneous items up. I assume women will prefer to have a standard short sleeved jersey instead of a long sleeved one.
It is obviously too late to send these back to our supplier in Colombia, South America now with the MS150 weekend less than 2 weeks away. So there are a couple of options for how to work through this mess.
Choice 1 – Anyone who planned to collect/purchase a women’s jersey can select a comparable men’s jersey instead. Quite a few women do this anyway. There is very little different between them except the torso portion of the jersey tends to be a little longer on the men’s jersey. If a member chooses to do this they will not be allowed to swap back later.
Choice 2 – In a parallel effort, we have located a clothing manufacturer in town to have them alter the long sleeved jerseys and make them standard short sleeved. I have looked at the design of my jersey from last year and compared it to the long sleeved jerseys and there should not be a problem with this approach. If you choose this approach, you will have to wait until next Thursday afternoon to collect your women’s jersey. I will be in touch later with more details on this.
Again – I apologize for the error and especially the timing on this matter. All other items of clothing can still be picked up at BWF.
Thanks for your on-going patience.
Danny Hlavinka
SCC Clothing Coordinator (aka Un-Coordinat-ed)
SCC CLOTHING UPDATE - April 6th
It’s finally here!! The moment you have all been waiting for. Start your engines…..but first a lot of administrative details to clarify.
This is a long entry but please read it in its entirety.
I genuinely appreciate everyone’s patience while I worked through a number of details and hurdles in preparing the clothing redemption spreadsheet this year. Until you have done this personally – you will not have a true appreciation for the amount of collaboration it requires to obtain all the details. We are confident that as the new SCC website becomes a reality….this process will become more streamlined. Until then, we are all forced to reckon with the antiquated Excel spreadsheet approach. This year has proven to be a bit more challenging and the learning curve has been steeper than in the past, but now that this initial effort is behind us, keeping this spreadsheet updated should prove to be a bit more straightforward.
I must preface all the clothing specific details that you really want to hear with some information that everyone needs to understand. SCC typically keeps a clothing design for two years. This is the second year that we will have our current clothing design. During the off-season, we placed a purchase order for additional quantities of clothing in anticipation of the demand for the coming season. We based those quantities on historical data from year two of the previous SCC clothing design. We are finding that the current design is much more popular than the previous design. This is good because we want you to wear the SCC gear with pride. The unfortunate aspect of this is that I am concerned that there will not be enough of the new clothing design to allow everyone who has earned free clothing to redeem their item before the MS150 ride. Now before you start banging out an e-mail to your nearest SCC officers or making frantic calls to Bicycle World, we have a game plan that we feel is fair and achievable. It will require honesty and patience on everyone’s part and I am confident that we can accomplish this if we all work together.
There are quite a few SCC members who have already redeemed or purchased the current clothing design from last year. Many of those people have qualified for free clothing again this year. If you happen to fall in this category, the SCC Board is asking that you refrain from redeeming your free item or purchasing a new item until after the MS150 weekend. This will allow those SCC members who are new to the club or who did not get an item last year to obtain clothing first and (hopefully) allow everyone to wear their matching SCC clothing on the MS150 weekend. We also ask you to not collect more than one of any item to allow others a chance to obtain their matching gear for the MS150 weekend. After all, we want to be recognized as a unified team and the clothing is the main way to show that you represent SCC.
As noted above, this approach relies heavily on your honesty and I am hopeful that we can count on that from everyone. Our promise is to assess the clothing situation after the MS150 weekend and determine if we need to place another order for a few more items to fulfill the remaining redemptions earned by members. By the way, I do still have records of everyone that redeemed all pieces of clothing last year so please don’t make me resort to reviewing that. The goal is for everyone to show their affiliation with SCC during the MS150 weekend and we can do that if we work together as a team.
Now for the details you have been waiting for. The clothing will be available from the Bicycle World shop on Memorial & Dairy Ashford beginning on Saturday, April 7. The clothing incentive spreadsheet (Click here) shows which items you have earned for free based on volunteer points, fundraising and ride participation. The data which is used to create this spreadsheet is obtained from and validated by multiple people as noted below:
Membership Dues: Neil Campbell
Safety Clinic Status: Charlie Johnson
Volunteer Points: Alexandra Irady
Ride Participation: Bill Vandermeer
Fundraising Totals: Justin Marz
You will notice that my task is to compile all this data. I am not responsible for the accuracy of the data given to me. If you have a question about the totals for any of these categories and how it affects your ability to qualify for free clothing – you need to contact the person noted above….not me. If a correction needs to be made, the responsible person will contact me with details and I will update the spreadsheet accordingly. The correction will not likely be made instantaneously. You will need to be patient while we reconcile details and get things updated. Please don’t ask for special consideration or handling because your situation is “unique” ….. everyone thinks their situation is unique. We will get it resolved in due time. Additionally, you will notice that the data in the spreadsheet is current through April 2 only. If you did something to affect your personal data since then…it has not been captured yet. You will have to wait for the next spreadsheet update to see how that affects your qualifications for clothing. To assure you don’t make a trip to BWF and then find out that you haven’t qualified for something that you thought you had earned….please review the Clothing Incentive Sheet on the SCC webpage BEFORE going to Bicycle World. That way there will be no surprises when you get there and you will not waste time/money on a trip to BWF and have to leave disappointed. Please work with us on this.
After you select your item at BWF, you must check out at the cashier’s counter. They will have this spreadsheet to reconcile what items you have selected. You MUST make sure they record the sizes, gender and quantity of EACH item that you redeem/purchase on their copy of the spreadsheet before you leave the store. That is the only way I can reconcile inventory/money accurately after the fact. If you purchase items you must pay with a check payable to “SCC” or with cash. You CANNOT pay with a credit card. Prices are shown below for each item:
The Men’s Race Cut Jerseys, Women’s Sleeveless Cycling Jerseys and Men’s Bib Cycling Shorts are specialty items and must be secured from me individually. These three items will not be available from BWF. You will NOT be allowed to exchange or swap one earned item for another item. If you want something other than what you earned, you must purchase that item.
Thanks again for your on-going support of SCC, the MS150 and your patience while we pulled these details together.
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