The Marine Corps Marathon (MCM) is billed as the “People’s Marathon” and with 36,000 participants and 5000 Marines, it is rightly named. The Pirañas arrived in town late and on fire. They caught a taxi from Washington Dules Airport to the Hyatt where they are staying for the weekend:
After checking in they started looking for the booth and promotional materials they had shipped to the hotel. The hotel staff looked, and looked, and looked. Finally they said, “go on up to your room and we will bring them to you.” then they called and said they had found the display, but not the materials. T3 said, “don’t bring it up, we are coming down.” They went down. They looked, and looked, and looked. They took T3 and Obi on a tour of the bowels of the hotel to look. T3 called his staff who had shipped the items and got tracking numbers and such. Then Mav called. “They brought everything up to the room.” he said. Go figure.
Armed with a booth and materials the Pirañas headed to the expo:
There is a shuttle to and from the Armory where the expo is. The bus driver took them on a tour of all the construction sites in DC before dropping them off at the armory where they set up the booth and got ready for business:
The first evening of the expo went well. Lots of people stopped to talk about the OCMM and running. The Pirañas found lots of people they knew and started making some new friends. It looks like it will be a great weekend.
See you tomorrow!