This weekend, Tom and I directed the 9th Annual Flutie 5K road race. I haven't posted much, if anything, on this blog about our side-business directing road races. For years, we both directed races for our respective favorite causes and received quite a bit of really positive feedback, encouraging us to make this a paying gig. So much so that on a whim, Tom grabbed the url, www.racedirectors.com, and we hung on to it, even while we were busy getting married and my four years at BC working on that MBA. Once I finished, we found that the interest in actually hiring us to direct niche road races was still there, and we've been in the fortunate enough to earn contracts to direct a handful of events over the past 1-2 years.
The Flutie race is a great experience for us, and we enjoyed working with the Foundation's staff immensely. Pre-reg numbers were on track all the way until the close of online registration Friday night to easily break 800-1000 on race day, but sadly, the weather gods were not with us today. I have to say: even we were caught completely off-guard. When we got up at 4am today (yes, 4am), forecasters were still calling for scattered showers. As Tom reflected tonight, were all the showers scattered over Natick, MA? Nevertheless, we had a terrific team of volunteers and really wonderful -- and more importantly, good natured! -- runners that made for a great fundraiser for the Foundation.
Now, to dry out.....
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