Blue Noses and No Red Faces

Posted by Alex on May 27, 2010 in Featured Articles | Comments

This post would have arrived a little earlier, but like everyone who has worked on the Blue Nose Marathon the past few days have been “recovery time”. On Monday my voice was gone and I spent most of it dozing in and out of consciousness. It makes me wonder how the people who ran the marathon felt like on Monday. Oh well.. I’m fighting fit again now!

The title of this post really does reflect my overall thoughts on the weekend. There really were no major issues, everything seemed smooth. Obviously there is room for improvement and thanks to Facebook and Twitter we have had some great feedback.

We were even lucky enough to get some wonderful weather. Most runners I spoke to said that they found the conditions just right. It was beautiful day with barely a cloud in the sky but there was that all important breeze. Without it,  it would have been too hot for many.

The actual running is just one aspect of the Blue Nose weekend. My weekend started off at the Expo in the WTCC. This year it was much more organized and there were things that would interest you whether you were a runner or not. I remember walking round last year’s expo which was very tedious, so it was great to see such life coming from the expo.

Nearly every person who left the expo on Saturday left with a blue nose as the exchange students who were volunteering obviously didn’t pickup that the paint was just for the kids but it didn’t really matter it was actually quite amusing! On the evening of Saturday I coordinated Pasta Village and I can safely say that the food was good. After sitting and watching people eat for two hours you didn’t have to ask me twice to go eat.

I took the opportunity to grab my florescent safety jacket and headed out on to the course to see the Nova Scotia Doctors Youth Run.  Here are a few clips from the youth run start and finish line. Listen for the kid about a minute into the first video screaming at the Smart Bread Mascot. It was hard not to laugh.

You may also wish to watch these videos: Youth Run Winners, Youth Run Finish Line & the Post Race Party.

Sunday brought us the adult runs (that doesn’t sound right) but sadly I was busy coordinating the awards in the metro centre so I never got to see them start. Tara took 1000+ images at the weekend and I am sure they will be up on her site soon.

Once people started to cross the finish line we were waiting to make sure the winners got their Nova Scotian Crystal trophies and that was a manic few hours! Then I shot back home to shower and change to come back to coordinate the party. It was one heavy weekend!

—Talking of heavy weekends, you should check out this guy who spent 12 hours on the treadmill outside the expo on Saturday and then ran the full marathon on Sunday. Wow! Here is the video of the last 60 seconds of the 12 hours treadmill run. http://tweetreel.com/?b1c3r

I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who was involved, especially to this year’s Special Events committee and to all my awesome volunteers. I met some amazing people this weekend and I hope that our paths will cross again! Until next year…

I know that Tara will most likely get around to uploading some of her photos in the next few days but I just wanted to share a few of them with you. These haven’t been polished yet but I still think they are awesome!