Piping Along The Route

As mentioned in my earlier post, this weekend was Fredericton Race Weekend. As part of a group representing Team Diabetes, I was out bright and early on Sunday to set up a cheering zone. We were located at the turnaround point for the 10k route. This meant that all the 10k runners as well as the Half Marathoners and the Marathoners passed us at least once. Total registrations were well over 2000 runners so I'm guessing at least 1500 passed by where we were set up. I brought my pipes, dressed in a kilt and Team Diabetes shirt and played for them. Got lots of great reactions! A couple of people called out special requests (eg. Amazing Grace) and one runner asked for a Strathspey and she stopped to dance a few steps. Lots of smiles, clapping, "thank you"'s and "I love the pipes" from the runners.