Packet pickup started on Thursday. On Tuesday we scheduled delivery of the bibs and the D-tags. Wednesday evening we were going to have a little assembly line party.
Not so much. The bibs were not express-mailed to Brooklyn . They were sent to Garrison , NY Rhode Island
But where are the D-Tags? It seemed Cronotrack just forgot to make them. “No problem,”says the nice man in Indiana
So we get the tags and the bibs together 5 hours before packet pickup starts. And we see that the relay teams only have one number each. We need three. More FEDEX. We make it work.
Oh, I forgot about the headbands, our giveaway. At 8AM Thursday morning I get an email from the guy who ordered them for us. "There is a problem with shipping them here. We got 500 of them, but 1,000 are still in Columbia Columbia , South Carolina Colombia in South America ! So in 10 hours Trail Heads makes, and ships another 1,000 custom headbands to us. All’s well. We also got a delivery of the 1,000 headbands that were stuck in customs.
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| Water to be returned! |
I am not even going to get into the insanity of getting a permit to actually have this event in Prospect Park
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| My Donald Trump Moment. |
But, nobody noticed. We had over 1,300 people sign up for the event. We collected piles of clothing to give to the young athletes of Belize
My biggest kick was seeing how much fun the volunteers had. It really make me feel good to get people to do something that they did not plan on doing and then seeing how much of a good time they had.
My biggest kick was seeing how much fun the volunteers had. It really make me feel good to get people to do something that they did not plan on doing and then seeing how much of a good time they had.
When I was almost done I put my name on the list and got the last massage. My teammates came over and whispered last minute questions to me. I thought this is how Donald Trump must take a break too.
And then I go on the read comments on blogs that look like this "Sunday was the annual Cherry Tree 10 Miler and Relay in Prospect Park Brooklyn in February."
I am so looking forward to February 19th, 2012.
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Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong, already! So next year should be a piece of cake. You probably won't even need a massage, you'll be so serene.
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Kay, Alberta, Canada
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You are awesome! I heard so many good things about this year's race, and you got a shoutout from NYC Runs! Congratulations on a great event!
ReplyDeleteThank you SO much for putting on an amazing race!! I was just in town for the weekend and was thrilled to see this race on the schedule. I loved my headwarmer (and had no idea you went through such great lengths to get it -- thank you. Race swag makes such a difference!) and the organization and volunteers were terrific. I was in the back of the pack, using the race as the base for my 14 mile training run/walk and I felt supported all the (long, slow) way through. Much appreciation from this back of the packer.
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