One of my favorite days of the year in NYC is Marathon Day. There is an electric feel everywhere you go — so many people with smiles, cheering people on for accomplishing something they dreamed of doing, an inexplainable excitement. Truly a magical day in the city. The second best thing to RUNNING the marathon, is cheering all the runners on. Since this year, I ran the Chicago Marathon and have been dealing with a nagging injury (I can barely run right now, which is devastating, but resting it is the best thing for it), I opted out of running the NYC marathon, and instead cheered everyone on. And what a glorious day it was! With Tusia and two of her friends, we decided to make signs to go cheer everyone on at mile 25. Making signs was a great activity in itself!
The first problem was trying to find poster board. We didn’t think about making signs until. the day of, and on Sunday morning, no store nearby had poster boards. So I had to get creative with how to make a poster board — in this case, I had a big gift bag, that I cut into parts, put white paper on the side, and taped it all together. You do what you gotta do!
Party on the back of the sign!
Shockingly, we spent a lot of time figuring out fun and creative signs that would be cute, inspiring, and not annoying. Who knows if we achieved that, but I think we did!
My sign.
Our four signs.
Cheering everyone was such a highlight, that we didn’t even need our signs. We lost them, and instead just SHOUTED and YELLED at every single person that ran by. “GO LADY.” “GO PERSON IN THE ORANGE SHIRT” Literally, everyone. We screamed for so long that we lost our voices. We loved every minute.
We loved it so much that we had to take a break and go home to rest our vocal cords, and then went back to cheer the later people. Along the way home, we saw this sign that made me laugh. Oh so true.
Super creative.
Made me laugh.
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All this to say — if you haven’t experienced the NYC marathon, it is one of a kind. A must do — to run it, to cheer, to just feel the city alive and so happy and excited. And if you can think of any fun marathon signs, send me them my way — you never know when you’ll need a creative and punny sign for future marathons!
