Here in Oklahoma, it seems that there has been little else to do than to swim during March. In Tulsa we've broken records and have gotten more than 7.5 inches of rain since last Sunday. We have heard that weather conditions are not alot better throughout Arkansas, Kansas, or Missouri. Clubs that have indoor YREs or other venues available can maintain a walk exercise regimen. It not only helps with your physical health, but contribute enormously to mental health, if not just helping to alleviate the blahs!
My advice is "do a Volksswim when its warm and sunny; get out (in) at times like these and do a walk!"
DON'T PROCRASTINATE, CHECK YOUR YRE START BOXES - During the past month, I have visited a number of YRE Start Points that have Start Boxes FILLED with envelopes left by folks who have completed the event. Because I am one who often leaves cash in payment for the event participation fee (registration), I surmise that any number of those other envelopes also contain cash. Of course, the more envelopes, the more possibility of cash. But more significantly to your Club, the more temptation for the dishonest person who knows, or can deduce, that cash is in your Start Box/Bag.
A number of Clubs frank (pre-stamp) envelopes to allow walkers to mail the Start Card and event participation fee (registration) to a designated address, some Cubs provide addressed evelopes and ask the walker to stamp and mail it, but other Clubs have a designated location (a folder, a lock box, or a constructed and secure slotted container) for unstamped envelopes to be left. No matter whether or not you lock a container, it can be opened. Wisdom dictates, therefore, that if you allow walkers to leave cash in your Start Box upon completing your YRE, you should retrieve all of the envelopes in that Box no less frequently than about once each week. Inasmuch as the event coordinator or a designee should be keeping a regular eye on the YRE route to be aware of trail blockages due to highway/street construction, washouts, new traffic patterns and the like, that person can retrieve those envelopes as well.
Avoid a financial catastrophe; check your Start Box as frequently as (and EVEN MORE frequently than) you check your trail!
Ken
