FEET-URED COMMITTEE MEMBER: JUDY & JOE

🍌 Feet-ured Committee Members: Judy & Joe 🍌

Judy & Joe have been fueling ECM runners for years! 🙌 After you cross that finish line 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️💨, they’re the reason you’ve got tasty post-race bites waiting.

From planning the snacks 🥯, picking them up 🚗, setting up the tents 🎪, and handing it all out with big smiles and cheers 🎉—Judy & Joe make sure every runner celebrates with food and fun! 💙

They’re truly the top bananas at the finish line 🍌🏅👏

From Judy:" I have been involved as a volunteer for the Eau Claire Marathon since 2014, when I was asked to join the team. My role is providing food for all the runners at the finish lines of the races.

Having been a distance runner myself, I simply love witnessing the varied emotions of runners as they cross the finish line; jubilation, satisfaction, anguish, and pride.

I have watched the Eau Claire Marathon get better and better every year. The passionate work of our race directors along with their creative planning and organizational skills has brought success and continued growth to the Marathon. Wonderful, hardworking people come together race weekend to give runners the best possible experience.

I’m very proud to have a role in such a positive event that showcases our city and brings people from many places here to Eau Claire on race weekend.

It’s a lot of work, crazy at times, but immense satisfaction. Eau Claire Marathon makes me smile!"

From Joe: "Why do I volunteer for the EC Marathon? Is it the long hours? Is it the cold and rain? Is it unloading a semi truck worth of food? No, none of those things.

It is watching a middle of the pack runner ringing the PR bell. It is wrapping a Mylar blanket around a shivering but smiling finisher. It is watching a fire fighter in full turnout gear finishing the race after 7 plus hours. It is all of these things and so much more!"