The Monumental Mile is a Race honoring the veterans in our community and it will take place right before the 4th of July's Veterans Parade. For the last several years I drove my grandfather in the parade. I plan to do that again this year after the race.
On Monday, my running buddy Jason ( who you may remember from The 4th of July 5K, The Love Run, the Harvest Festival race, Running of the Elves, VA Beach Half, and other runs) and I got interviewed by the local media and then had a photo shoot to help promote this inaugural race.
I knew that we would be doing the photos, but I didn't know if they would be in color or black and white. I should have planned my wardrobe a few days in advance, but I didn't. Since this was promoting a military based race, I thought I would wear my favorite Army t-shirt. Of course I should have laid my outfit out the night before because it was a half hour before the shoot and I could not find the shirt. O well. I decided to wear my colorful Fabletics capris just in case it was in color. I threw on a tank and called it done.
We met the reporter at the park and since both our grandfathers served in the military we talked about the significance of that. We then talked about the difference between training for races of various distances.
After that, it was time to shoot some pictures. I didn't realize that we would be doing some action shots. As you may notice from the blog, I don't do running shots. I don't know how the rest of you do it. Is it a GoPro thing?
The photographer picked out the perfect spot and we did several running passes so he could get some action shots. Jason and I both agreed that it was kind of fun! We then did a few other "still" poses and one with a "high five".
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| Here is a photo from the online version of the newspaper. You can't tell because of the text banner running across the screen, but we are running. |
The reporter said it might be a while until the story ran in the newspaper because there were several other stories that need to run first. Turns out, it was on the front page of the newspaper the very next day (which was yesterday). Have you ever helped to promote a race? Did you do anything fun on Monday? -M