Monday, April 3, 2017

My Heart is Full of Gratitude

I've been trying to read all of the social media posts and see all of the pictures from this weekend. There are so many!

Every year, 35-40 key volunteers work for months leading up to race weekend. Then, a week before the race, hundreds of volunteers stuff goody bags. Race weekend needs thousands of volunteers to be successful.

Sometimes the tasks aren't easy and certainly not glamorous but people show up anyway. Over the years, they've stood in the cold and rain and wind and sun and handed out water, biked the course over and over, placed medals around necks, built stanchions and then broke them down, and so many more things that you probably can't imagine.

It's amazing.

CHKM Week - It's Here! It's Here!

We've been experiencing marathon week in some shape or form for 20 years. Altman ran the full marathon the first year, and I ran the 5K....