Reported for duty this morning at 5:30am on the dot. Put on my blue "race crew" t-shirt and spent the next 3 hours getting the finish line area set up. Set up tables, pulled boxes of oranges and bananas off pallet after pallet, broke apart bananas and cut up oranges, pulled bags of ice off pallets to fill the garbage cans with Cytomax, then pulled Cytomax off pallets to put into the cans, then had to re-arrange the cans about 700 times, broke open boxes of medals to hand out .... then, FINALLY, the runners :) I was back with the Cytomax and 99.8% of the runners were very thankful ! Some smiles, some high fives, lots of "please take my/ our picture"... it's always good to see people soooo happy to have crossed that finish line ! Then, with less than 500 runners on the course still, time to break down tables, consolidate left over food and drink, dump any left over ice, and I was released at 2:30. WHEW.... I have to say, running 13.1 is easier than being a volunteer ! Very very long, busy, chaotic, muscle straining day. But, standing and talking to the lady in her 60's who had just finished the marathon, and was... waiting, that's right, waiting for her daughter to finish was worth it ! The guys who smiled while walking stiff legged to get a drink, and then said thank you when you met them halfway :) ... worth it. Would I do it again ? Maybe for a smaller race. But I do know now that running is easier than volunteering ! Kudos to RnR / Competitor for an amazing event, they know their stuff and how to make it work :)On a humorous side note, I stole an idea from my previous trainer, and am doing a 30 day workout challenge. The challenge ? Do some type of cardio or weight training every single day for a minimum of 30 minutes for 30 days. I'm currently 5 of 25 days. That's right... I'm counting my 8 hour volunteer duty as a workout. I FEEL like it was :) Nice !! Wanna join in ??
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