Mal’s Spyshot: Me hard at work marshalling the prologue..
The day started off boring as we arrived at 8am and then did nothing for a couple of hours. We were also off the race route which sucked but then all the team buses rocked up in our area and the riders started warming up.
It quickly turned to carnage. We were just volunteers and were not supposed to be crowd control or blocking traffic, etc. but a bunch of us ended up standing in the middle of the road: checking a multitude of passes and wrist bands to allow people into the “pits” (none of which we knew the meaning of – anyone with any pass got in), stopping dopey pedestrians from being run over by team cars and riders.
Meanwhile a bunch of coppers just stood around and watched us! One of them even had the nerve to say “do you know you just let a known felon through?”
Well actually if they are a known felon shouldn’t YOU fecking do something about them?!?! Secondly, they came from the OTHER end of this area, ie. from behind me, aka not my problem coppah!
Like I said, it was carnage. Did this for hours and then had to eat before I decked the next member of public trying to sneak in. I bailed and spent the last hour of the race watching the race! I didn’t feel guilty because I’d already heard that most of the marshalls were just standing on the route taking photos! I didn’t have a camera because they said we weren’t to take photos but I got Mal’s and snapped some during the last hour. See below. It was all good fun and wearing the jersey got us pretty much anywhere. We had a look into all the team areas, we got a clear space on the race route. Nice!
mmuk’s photos – london prologue
So, did you do your marshalling thing at the prologue?
Yep.. I’ve added a little text now.
i must say.. i own a rather pink shirt stu.. and the girls love it!! or maybe it’s just the hunk thats wearing it..? hehe 😉
They love it because they want to wear it.. ya big fruit!