Can you say 26.2 miles?

Oh DJ.

What will you do next?

On Sunday (1/11/09) my soon-to-be sister-in-law ran the Disney Marathon.

And she did great!

Kevin (her husband and Darin's brother), Darin, and I decided it would be fun to volunteer and watch her race! Good idea us. (kind of said sarcastically)

Good Morning.
Notice it's dark outside.

Chipper Kevin and Darin

Didn't see DJ until she ran by us, but Kevin, Darin, and I were at Disney at 5:30 am. A.M. Yikes. It was very early and dark, and there were nice other volunteers there.

Ended up being crazy.

Good crazy though.

First, there were 22000 people running this race. And we were at mile 22 to give them water. All of them - though only like 15000 actually made it that far.

Here were the tables lined up. Just the water - not the powerade.

This was what I did. For 2.5 hours straight.



This was what Darin and Kevin did.
The male runners seemed to really like Darin's long arms.
Wink wink, nudge nudge.

Side note: We decided to do Mile 22 because we're evil and wanted to see if people would puke. They didn't. It was sad. (Or at least we didn't see anyone puke.) Next year?

Filled up so many things of water. Wow. The people were non-stop for over 2 hours.

Can you see the people coming? Yikes.

And then when people were finally finished (they put a cap on the race, 7 hours I think) we had to clean up all of said cups. Because the runners didn't bring them with and didn't throw them away. Obviously. (Most people were out of it by the time they came by.)

It's almost over. Yeah!

Montage of cups.

But we saw DJ and got to cheer her on.

DJ! She was by us for like .0002 seconds.

We met some nice people and got a free ticket to a Disney Park for volunteering.

All before 11 am.