Well, it's been a while, but things have been really busy.
Last weekend was the OBX Marathon and Half Marathon. Earl and Jenni both worked at the Expo on Saturday, registering runners and handing out T-shirts, respectively. I (Earl) had a lot of fun, got to meet a lot of people from other parts of the state and country and welcome them to the Outer Banks. Jenni, on the other hand had the job of handing out less-than-popular T-shirts. It seems the organizers decided that instead of the tradition souvenir T-shirt, they would give runners some nice, technical sports apparel with the OBX Marathon logo. While this seems to be a nice idea, it turned out not to be very popular with the runners, and Jenni had to listen to a lot of complaints. I thought the shirts were very nice, but not so festive.
On race day, Hilda and I worked as route marshalls at the 10 mile checkpoint. I took a bunch of pictures of people I didn't know, and Hilda cheered wildly for them. After the runners finished passing by our station, we went by Sean's house and took him and Phoenix out to Stack-em-High for brunch. All in all it was a fun, but tiring two days.
Jenni took a lot of pictures of the marathon, and has posted many of them on her SmugMug photo site. You can view them at http://www.jwoo.smugmug.com/
Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday were all a blur to me, getting up at 5:00 am and driving to Hatteras on Mon & Tues and to Currituck on Wednesday and working a full day. I'm getting along well with working on the road again, though, and I think my clients are pretty much getting used to seeing me instead of Earl Kelly.
On Thursday, a cold front came through and we had a pretty breezy days with winds of 25-30, and rain pretty much all day. In the afternoon, the temperature dropped to the low 40's, but warmed back up once the rain stopped. Like everyone else in the East, we needed the rain, and wind is pretty normal, so we can't complain.
Today, Friday is a beautiful fall day. Hilda and I got outside for a little while when we took both trucks to get them serviced, and enjoyed being out. My understanding is that we're going to Manteo tonight to see a high school play, I'll report on that later. Looks like a quiet weekend coming up, so we can get prepared for the long holiday weekend next week.
Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday were all a blur to me, getting up at 5:00 am and driving to Hatteras on Mon & Tues and to Currituck on Wednesday and working a full day. I'm getting along well with working on the road again, though, and I think my clients are pretty much getting used to seeing me instead of Earl Kelly.
On Thursday, a cold front came through and we had a pretty breezy days with winds of 25-30, and rain pretty much all day. In the afternoon, the temperature dropped to the low 40's, but warmed back up once the rain stopped. Like everyone else in the East, we needed the rain, and wind is pretty normal, so we can't complain.
Today, Friday is a beautiful fall day. Hilda and I got outside for a little while when we took both trucks to get them serviced, and enjoyed being out. My understanding is that we're going to Manteo tonight to see a high school play, I'll report on that later. Looks like a quiet weekend coming up, so we can get prepared for the long holiday weekend next week.
1 comment:
I googled "OBX Marathon" for blog posts and yours was on the list. I'm thinking about running the half next year, so I enjoyed reading your post from a volunteer's perspective. I hear it's a well-run race! (The shirts sound great to me too!)
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