By Donna Cormier
Saturday morning at 5:30, we left the valley to drive to the base of Mount Washington for the 57th running of Northeast Delta Dental Mount Washington Road Race. Laura Holtby, Christine Smith and Mike Bryan were with us and prepared to run the race and volunteer. Sara Holtby, Brian Otis and myself were “just” volunteering. Even our car was being volunteered to go to the top of the rock pile to bring parking volunteers up and more runners back down. We started right in checking ID’s, answering questions, giving directions and laughing a lot. I tried charging extra for pins and Sara offered to “hold” people’s ice cream ticket.
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