Just got back from doing the early volunteer shift at the Nike Women's Marathon and Half Marathon--over 15,000 women of all shapes, sizes, looks, speeds, motivations and reasons for running. Probably a few hundred men running too. And, 4,200 TNT runners included in that total. Any of you single ST guys, here was your chance! ;-)
The one very interesting thing is that quite a few gals came up to our table (aid station at the start) to get water and downed salt packets (like you get at McDonalds), or, asked us for salt. WTF???? Is this the kind of information that's being disseminated? It's 50F, foggy and cold...perfect marathon weather, not 90F sunny and humid like Kona last weekend.
They also had way more volunteers than needed, which is great. That's what happens when you hit the high schools and the kids get credit for volunteering, plus, they were getting paid. They also hired a temp agency who sent a number of volunteers.
Lots of first-time racers there and the other telling difference between an all (or mostly all) women's race and not....gals would come up to the tables and ask if they could take a cup of water, then find the trash and drop their used cups in the trash, or, bring the cup back up for a refill. Made clean up really fast as we only had to pick up a few stray cups tossed on the ground.
Time for a nap. The 4AM alarm was really early.
clm
clm
Nashville, TN
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The one very interesting thing is that quite a few gals came up to our table (aid station at the start) to get water and downed salt packets (like you get at McDonalds), or, asked us for salt. WTF???? Is this the kind of information that's being disseminated? It's 50F, foggy and cold...perfect marathon weather, not 90F sunny and humid like Kona last weekend.
They also had way more volunteers than needed, which is great. That's what happens when you hit the high schools and the kids get credit for volunteering, plus, they were getting paid. They also hired a temp agency who sent a number of volunteers.
Lots of first-time racers there and the other telling difference between an all (or mostly all) women's race and not....gals would come up to the tables and ask if they could take a cup of water, then find the trash and drop their used cups in the trash, or, bring the cup back up for a refill. Made clean up really fast as we only had to pick up a few stray cups tossed on the ground.
Time for a nap. The 4AM alarm was really early.
clm
clm
Nashville, TN
https://twitter.com/ironclm | http://ironclm.typepad.com