A New Talent for Waverly?

Saturday morning, Bill and I, Karen Felicidario and her daughter, Emma, Waverly and her friend, Natalia and Holden Choi manned the ~mile 8 water stop during the Ten For Texas race.

Once Ten For Texas had to change their date and Bill and I both knew that their numbers were going to take a major hit, we decided to take a leadership role and reach out to the race that we would put on a water stop. (We had hoped that we would encourage more to do so although our team of eight did great! I think we're figuring at that water stop that about one person per 100-125 runners is appropriate.)

As I've said before, since we decided to reach out, I wanted the last water stop - for multiple reasons. At that point, the field is stretched out so from a pure water stop perspective you're not getting crushed by runners.

Additionally, that separation allows you to see how the race has pretty much developed -- and it is a great time to cheer people on.

I think everyone had a LOT of fun and I know that there were people that were coming in to the stop with smiles on their faces. I was up front cheering runners on and taking pictures. I was also telling them "water in the front and Gatorade in the back." Of course, some - including a certain Luke's Locker store manager - were wearing headphones and couldn't hear you even with a bullhorn. [I think running shoe store employees should be leaders as it comes to following the rules of a race. Just my opinion.]

For Waverly and her friend, Natalia, it also allowed for them to claim two hours and 45 minutes of volunteer credit.