A few weekends ago Chris ran the Murfreesboro Half Marathon. For those of you who aren't familiar with running, that's 13.1 miles... I am not sure why anyone would want to run that much, but over 1700 people took part.
Chris wanted me to take him to the starting line the morning of the race, so I decided that since I had to get up REALLY early I would volunteer to help with the race.
Their first suggestion was for me to give out packets to the runners... at 5:00 in the morning. I kindly asked for something a little closer to my house and not quite so early. I ended up on one of the corners of Maney ave. keeping cars off the course. Sounds like a simple task, but some people were very, very rude about it. They thought we should stop all the runners just to let them through. I did get to wear a not so cool neon yellow vest and use an orange flag, I felt very important.
I watched closely to try and catch a picture of Chris. The runners had to run down Maney to Oakland's Mansion, then back up to Main Street. He passed my station at approximately mile 4 and mile 6 and I got to see him (and take pictures) both times.
After all the runners had passed my post for the second time, I walked over to the finish line at the MTSU track. Chris finished the race in 2 hours 17 minutes.
Chris wanted me to take him to the starting line the morning of the race, so I decided that since I had to get up REALLY early I would volunteer to help with the race.
Their first suggestion was for me to give out packets to the runners... at 5:00 in the morning. I kindly asked for something a little closer to my house and not quite so early. I ended up on one of the corners of Maney ave. keeping cars off the course. Sounds like a simple task, but some people were very, very rude about it. They thought we should stop all the runners just to let them through. I did get to wear a not so cool neon yellow vest and use an orange flag, I felt very important.
I watched closely to try and catch a picture of Chris. The runners had to run down Maney to Oakland's Mansion, then back up to Main Street. He passed my station at approximately mile 4 and mile 6 and I got to see him (and take pictures) both times.
After all the runners had passed my post for the second time, I walked over to the finish line at the MTSU track. Chris finished the race in 2 hours 17 minutes.
