My Volunteer Experience

I talk about volunteering a lot.  I read about opportunities all the time.  Today I actually volunteered at a 10K trail race.

I love running so volunteering at a race seems like a perfect match.  Hubby and I worked the water stop.

The benefits of my volunteering experience:

• It was a gorgeous day!  And I spent all morning outside enjoying it.
• We hiked before the race started so I got in some great exercise.
• I met a lot of people.  In fact, I am going for an afternoon walk with one of them tomorrow.
• Almost every one of the runners thanked us for volunteering.  Talk about feeling good!
• We received free race t-shirts!
• The lady that made the fabulous pumpkin bars sent me home with a baggie of the extras.

I highly recommend volunteering and plan to do a lot more of it myself.  I had a great time today and it didn’t cost me a penny, but the enjoyment was enormous!  That’s my cheapskate reason for doing it!  Oh, don’t forget the free t-shirt!