7 am - MRTC road race series 2nd 10K. I decided to take this race very easy and treat it as a training run if I felt tired, which is why I'm not entering this as a race report. During the first mile, I decided this would definitely be a "throw-away" race since I did really well in the previous 10K. Still tired from the long run Fri and recovery run yesterday, then being on my feet all afternoon Sat helping with registration for the kid's triathlon which is today. My time was somewhere around 1:01, and I did not hand in my race card at the end. 1 to 4 pm - run course monitor and water stop volunteer at the kid's triathlon. What a great event - there were over 200 kids, ages 7 to 14 participating. I ended up running another .8 to maybe 1 mile because of a situation where some students on the school campus where the event was held were in an unscheduled review class and needed to leave from a parking lot onto the closed triathlon course. My water stop was next to parking lot, and the security guard asked if the kids could drive their cars out, and I said, "No, there are 7-year-old kids on what is supposed to be a closed course on bikes." One of the students apparently argued that it is their campus and we were guests just using it so they would do what they wanted. ( He turned out to be one of the race director's sons, and should know better). I told them not to leave the parking lot, not to drive onto the course, and I would find the race director to find out what to do, so I ended up running back to the start area and found the race co-director who had the school headmaster's phone number. She was able to contact him (he was on the campus fortunately), and he was able to deal with the situation. The students had to stay until all the bikers were off the course, which was the right thing to do for their safety.
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