If you haven’t read the prior post “The Weather”, please start there. This post covers race data… that is, factual race information that should or could be in your patter as an announcer. Because LiveTime (LT) is the dominant scoring software, that’s what I’ll be focusing on. However, if you use another program it should […]
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How about that weather? The go-to topic when you need to talk about something. This post is about what you say as a race announcer (often the RD’s job, sometimes separated). Patter. Specifically, what things should you talk about and why. I will follow-up with a second post covering what information you get from the […]
This morning, I posted a link to the opening salvo of From The Chair in a Facebook group I follow. I received not only good feedback – including a couple of folks saying it’ll help them! – but also a wonderful idea: how about getting other RDs to contribute? I’m all for it! So… if […]