Adventures at bag check

[ebeth]

First of all I'm way jealous of all the PRs today. Nice work ladies!

So I know you're all just dying to know what I wore. I ended up wearing my Nike capris because they had the best pockets. They gave us a shirt that was pretty nice but its HUGE on me so my H will we getting it as a gift.

Other Nike weirdness....we put the bags in these huge boxes when they were checked in groups of 50. I assumed we'd spend the race lining them up on the ground in order, but Nike did want us to because it would 'look messy'. We were anticipating a cluster post race, since we couldn't sort the bags but it actually worked out ok because there were like 12volunteers per tent. This included a pack of annoying teenagers in mine who would all descend on a bin trying to beat each other to find like every person's bag showed up. I admired their tenacity but it was a little ridiculous.

All in all it was a decent experience and because we had some down time during the race I saw the start and the first finishers.

[Wines Not Whines]

LOL. Gear check went very smoothly from my perspective as a runner. I looked for you, but you must not have been near my number. Thanks for volunteering!

[gvsu04]

Glad to hear you had a good experience too! The teenagers would have been annoying, but maybe entertaining too?

[MrsE]

Sounds like an entertaining morning. I'm disappointed to hear the volunteer shirt is way to big for you, but hopefully your H will like it.

[ebeth]

Apr 28, 2013 14:52:32 GMT -5 gvsu04 said:

Glad to hear you had a good experience too! The teenagers would have been annoying, but maybe entertaining too?

They were slightly entertaining. But when they came rolling up at8:30 I was like'wtf, I thought teenagers were still sleeping at this hour'

I was at the 3000-5499 bag check on 11th.

And then there was the lady that showed up at like 9:30 to volunteer when most of the bags were already claimed....

Wines...it seemed like it was pretty easy for the runners. We had a couple of people with attitude problems but for the most part everyone was very nice. I'll volunteer for more races.

[gt7301b]

I didn't check a bag, but those boxes confused me. (Btw, we drove down and parked on Constitution super close it the start line, it was awesome.)

I am a little disappointed that you didn't find a way to go all Thoreau on them:)

[gvsu04]

Hey! You may have done my bag! I don't know how I missed the teenagers.