Joe's Rules: The Art of Trail-Race Directing provides a detailed description of the nature and process of organizing and executing trail races. Trail-race directors can be tight-lipped when it comes to exposing their methods and practices, and for the first time, a master of the art, Joe Prusaitis, lays bare his long experience as a director. Organized as a handbook, Joe's Rules covers each step in the staging of a race as it unfolds in time. From the earliest thoughts of putting on a race and searching for a race venue, to the breakdown and clean up of an event, the reader is led through the entire process as a series of eight phases: Advance Planning; Assembling a Staff; Pre-event Staging; Event Setup; The Day Before the Race; Race Day; Cleaning Up the Mess; and Post-race Reset. Each phase is carefully broken down into sections and subsections, which ensures a comprehensive examination of the phase at hand and makes it easy to search the text for topics of interest.