Tinkerbell Half Marathon

The Tinkerbell Half Marathon on May 8th was really cool event. This event was a limited event since there was a certain amount of volunteers that could volunteer from the whole division, so I felt pretty special going to this event since the volunteers were picked randomly.

When I got there it was still pretty dark since the shift started at 3 am I believe, and the coordinators knew we had a long day ahead of us so they had coffee and this snack box that contained tons of snacks. It took a while for everyone to get there so we were just chilling for a while but once everyone got there, the volunteers started getting loaded on the bus and from there we went to our location. D30S got assigned to pass out snacks, water and Gatorade cups, so when we got to our destination we had to set up tables and get the Gatorade and water ready.

Setting up consisted of putting the tables out also some gates and banners which was pretty hard work but interesting because I don’t even think that I’ve carried that much. Western High school Key club got assigned to pass out the energy bars along with other clubs and we got separate shirts from the company that was passing out the energy bars.

We got done setting up pretty early so for a while we were just sitting but once the runners came in it was busy nonstop. It was cool seeing everyone’s costumes, from Tinkerbell to the Mad Hatter, there was a variety of different costumes that was pretty cool to see. Our task was to pass out some energy pars so our job was pretty handful since the runners did need a lot of energy to finish the 13 mile course. Almost all the runners wanted the energy bars so everybody was busy handing them out and by the end we ran out. Towards the end we were so exhausted but it was worth it because it was a fun and interesting event.

It was then time to clean up and we all worked together to get it done pretty quickly, even if the whole division was so tired looking like zombies. We then took a group picture and then headed to the trolleys to take us back to the drop off location.

Overall It was pretty cool event to see the behind the scenes of such big marathon like this especially for Disneyland. I really enjoyed cheering on the runners along with other members who were fun to be with.

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