The Relay for Life 2010

Last Friday from 7pm to 7am Saturday I participated in the Relay for Life to raise money for cancer research. We had a great time and looked good doing it although it was a little chilly this year.

As we have for a few years now we dressed up as the Justice League, a team of superheroes battling cancer. This year it also fit with the theme of the relay campaign which was to fight back and to give courageously.

The Flash along with Batman were far more recognizable than me. A lot less people have heard of or can recognize the Green Lantern. I'm sure more people will recognize the Green Lantern after the movie in 2011 staring Ryan Reynolds. I may add a photo of me here later if I get a good one from someone else who was there.

We had a ton of stuff to eat at the relay and most of it went home with whoever had brought it. I brought some muffins but I don't think anyone had any. When I got there someone had brought pizza and subway. There was also a lot of candy, nuts, chips, ritz crackers, other muffins and that was just the stuff we brought. At midnight there was a free midnight snack, sandwiches from Baron of Beef and in the morning there was some food from Tim Hortons.

The food kept us going and I also kept track of how many laps I jogged around the track and met my goal of doing 25 laps which is 10km. This is the first year I've kept track and done many jogging laps. It was kind of warm jogging wearing the costume but everyone else was really cold and bundled up.

The relays we have done in the past have been in June at Bear Creek park. This year there was no Bear Creek park relay so we went to the relay in Delta. There were a lot less people than we're used to but apparently more people than the Delta one usually has.

While there was more free food than usual, the entertainment was really badly planned or not at all. The karaoke stretched on way longer than most people could put up with. In order to do some races that were originally planned we had to round up all the people ourselves and really bug the volunteers about running them. Then the volunteers participated in the two races we had and kept the prizes for themselves. I know it must be hard to find volunteers willing to last 12 hours in the middle of the night, but these people were just ridiculous.

See my blog posts about the relay 2 years ago, 3 years ago, and 4 years ago. It is interesting to look back on past relays. I wish I kept my blog more active last year.