Thanks to Adam.  A club order every year would be nice. Several people at Trilogy commented on the Better Sweater's running around.  One person in particular said he was a member but didn't know we were placing an order. I believe that he just didn't pay attention. The point is, there's a demand for these items.

A lot of work goes into the jacket sale.  I think we have generally polled interest at the annual meeting for the jacket sale and decided each year.  I hate to lock Adam into an annual commitment. 

Adam is trying to get logged in. His commitment is to handle the normal supply of club shirts. Maintain adequate stock, see they get to races to sell. I don't believe he wants to mail them and I agree we should dispense with that practice.

The annual or bi-annual jacket is something I can continue, unless Adam wants that too. 

I will comment at greater length on this topic after 12:oo.

Here is my plan moving forward with the shirts:  1) Establish a set inventory of styles, colors, sizes.   2) Continue a bin of miscellaneous "extras" from races (i.e. Highlands and Trilogy) that we print with the club logo.  3) Take orders from the set inventory via email/webpage and mail out to club members.  4) Carry club shirts to club events and notify club members via the club Facebook page when this will occur.

It's somewhat a work-in-progress, but that's my initial plan.  Mostly the same as what Lehmann has done for years with the addition of the inventory supply.  Trying to keep up with the multitude of shirts, sizes, and colors is probably the most complex aspect of the historic plan.

Any thoughts about this?

Sounds like a good, ambitious plan.

I'm full of ambition.  And maybe a few other things too . . .

Is there a way, Adam, we can get a pre count om sizes and what people want to make one bigger Patagonia order. I know Dan did a random sample of club members and if a shirt is on the table in someones size they are more likely to buy it then as opposed to wait for tue next batch.

I'm not following you Ashley.  Doing some afternoon drinking?

I might understand your question:  To clarify, I'm going to pre-order and keep stock certain styles (ie. Cap 2 zip, silkweight, etc) in selected colors and keep the sizes stocked so that they are consistently available.

Adam, I think you got what I was saying. I was pulling double duty while trying to post and two thoughts at once equal half a sentence to each group. Here is what I was saying: we keep the most common sizes and requested shirts in stock so if a racer sees the shirt at a race for sale they will be more likely to buy it instead of waiting for the next shipment or being put on wait list. Runners are human and may forget they wanted a specific shirt from one opportunity to purchase a shirt till the next opportunity.