Giro - final preparations (Part 3)

At 5 p.m., the bulk of the volunteers started arriving, many with workgloves in hand and all wearing red bandanas to identify us on the course. We picked up safety vests as well. We'd anxiously been tracking intermittent showers during the day, and there was some dismay when one started pretty close to the women's race. Luckily the streets dried before it was over, and then the weather finally cleared.

Everyone assembled at the athletes' village, where we got to admire TWO red Ferraris!!! These were the pace cars during the race, and were driven by their owners, members of the Ferrari Club (I don't know about you guys, but I'm buying lottery tickets...)

Team C (for Champions!) had a photo op with one of the Ferraris.
At 5.50, we went for our fencing lesson (on guard!), and then Hastings closed and then we were doing our own race, putting up the Hastings fence. In the meantime, volunteers were also putting the finishing touches on the first aid/information/souvenir tables, and handing out race packages.