June 4, 2015
I was a course marshal for a town footrace/walk that had about 50,000 entrants. My job was minimal. I was to work at one intersection to make sure that no cars tried to get through while the race was on. We had barricades as well. The weather was good for running and marshaling. At one point during the morning, I realized that I was doing something that benefitted almost 50,000 people. I never benefit this many people in anything I do. Maybe a few people will read this blog, and perhaps half will benefit. I am small potatoes in the benefit world. Until the race I marshaled. It was my first time to volunteer to be of some use in this race. I have either run it or been out of town for it in all the years I have lived in Boulder. I think I did a good deed. When you volunteer, you never know how many will benefit. You can only say, “Yes,” and show up. Oh, and a few people thanked me as they ran by. I told them if they can still talk at that point in the race, they are not running hard enough! I am still a little bad.