Volunteering at SeaFair Marathon for Ekal Vidyalaya
 Run Forrest Run! (Click for album) |
Around half a dozen volunteers from HY went to help organise the SeaFair marathon. The marathon is a huge operation. Around 26 miles of course that needs to kept safe for the runners. The WA-520 bridge was closed too for the marathon.
We were stationed at different intersections as ‘course marshalls’. Course marshalls keep the course safe by preventing vehicles to run in the same lane as the runners and also encourage the runners. We reached our positions around 7 am. We were given a bag with some water, a fruit, some instructions and posters with the words ‘Run, Run’.After about half an hour we could see the red and blue flashing lights or a couple of police bikes slowly coming towards us. They were escorting the leading pack of runners, about half a dozen Kenyans and one caucasian. I showed my ‘Run, Run’ sign enthusuastically but the runners were too busy concentraing on te race. Only the police stared at me. After another 13 mins a trickle of runners started and it grew slowly. |
