User blog:Forestpaw13/Oh People these days.

So this blog is a sad one, specifically about the Boston Marathon on 15 April 2013. I'll ask this question straight out: when has working out ever been more dangerous??

My cousin called me last night (today is 16 April) and told me that she was actually a finish line volunteer at the Marathon yesterday. To which I said, "Please tell me what you saw."

She was highly distressed, but it was a firsthand account so here's what it was like on the front line:

My cousin was one of the volunteers at the end of the finish line. She was one of those people that was standing at a table with water bottles all over it, and her job was to hand the water bottles out. Pretty simple. She said she never saw the first blast, but was actually bending down to open another case of water bottles. She heard the explosion and looked up to see the smoke. She stayed where she was for a few moments, trying to figure out what was going on. Then, down the street, BOOM, there goes the other bomb. She started to run to help (that's the way she is, can we all give her a HUGE shoutout? Love ya, gurl!) but was pushed back away from the gore before she could get there to help. When the ambulances arrived she had to push the tables out of the way. All pretense of neatly moving them aside was forgotten, she and other volunteers literally began to THROW the tables. People broke through the police lines to help out, there were football players literally just chucking the tables (to give you an idea, there were five volunteers left and LOTS AND LOTS of tables! Another account describes it as 'millions'). Then she was told to leave, but she still wanted to help, so she wandered around trying to find lost runners. She found people who couldn't understand English, but still wanted to keep running, so they were really mad when she tried to redirect them along the new path.

All and all it was very scary for her, but she was glad to be a witness to history.

She didn't do as much as this guy though: http://www.reddit.com/r/running/comments/1cemo3/explosion_at_boston/c9ftn98

Pretty much the same thing if you ask me. Just this guy is awesome! :)

K COOL BYE