TRIBUTE TO RACE DIRECTORS from SeeKCrun.com

When you take part in a run/street race, you pick up the packet and do the run and maybe stay for the awards and leave. You have taken part in a fund raiser, perhaps. The course was certified by a qualified and registered person. The area for the event was protected by police and there were refreshments on the route and you leave with a Tee shirt and a safe experience.  If you finished in the top level, you received a medallion or other type of recognition and then the event was over.

What you did not see was the people buying the shirts and/or awards months ahead, getting the bib numbers, advertising the event, handling registration, getting the permission from the police to close of streets, a group of volunteers two days before preparing the packets and then on race day, trucking the refreshments to various places on the route; the volunteers that set up the computers, the finish line lanes; the people that made certain you receive credit for your efforts and the refreshment and awards at the end of the event. And who do you think cleans up after everyone is gone, picks up the cones, reports the times to the web sites?

Send an appreciation note to the next director that benefits the KC running community, please?