Dexter-Ann Arbor races; O Fortuna

[inhumandecency]

Today I volunteered at the Dexter-Ann Arbor half marathon. I've been wanting to volunteer at some races for a long time, but the trail runs are all twenty miles out of town, and apparently trail runners don't believe in carpooling. For this one I got a ride out with some other volunteers, but they didn't want to come all the way down to euziere's

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[ebourland]

Now I'm commingling Slime ethos and O Fortuna.

The mental result is humorous.

[qmrf]

Did you ask all the finishing runners to climb on each others' backs in stacks based on which minute they finished the race to form a histogram of finishing times?

[inhumandecency]

That would actually work exceedingly well.

[qmrf]

Or maybe not "climb", but at least "collapse in a particular heap, rather than picking one at random."

[inhumandecency]

After Dances With Dirt, the 50k/50mi ultra, they actually had people at the finish line telling you "don't sit down!"