Inspiration Part 8: It's A Wrap!

They've been called Space Blanket, Mylar sheets and Heat Sheets, and they mean the same thing. That's the silver foil thingy that you're wrapped in not long after you cross the finish line. The purpose of turning you into a walking baked potato is to keep you toasty as you trudge to collect your belongings from the UPS trucks some distance away. Fall in NYC is cold, especially to us from the tropics. We run in 33C temperatures! But in 10C NYC (it could drop to as low as 7C), we'll be freezing our digits off. By the time we finish the marathon, we'll be wet and losing a lot of heat (but hopefully very ecstatic!). Worry not, the volunteers care!

Well drilled in these sort of operations, these volunteers get the task of wrapping the thousands upon thousands of finishers down to a pat, in a display of efficiency that will have a Back-Office Operations Manager nodding in approval.

Check the article out here.