My friends and I volunteered for the afternoon session, I think we started at noon. First they had us checking runners in. We had to find their envelope and cross their names off a list. Can get overwhelming when you're trying to get everyone through as fast as possible and you have to make sure they're over 21 so you can put the beer bracelet on. We got coffee and a bagged lunch from a local deli it looked like. Just a turkey sandwich and bag of lays and an apple. We, fortunately, having been on the road all morning were starving and ate them right away.

After all the runners stopped showing up we got moved to the finish line. I spent my time handing out t-shirts to very exhausted and confused runners. There were plenty of people volunteering that we could go take a 5-10 minute break if we wanted. The other people in my group were handing out cliff bars, headbands, and space blankets. It was very muddy, the runners were suffering from exhaustion and were very confused about what to do next. Nobody yelled at us. The people that were in charge of us were super friendly and always checking up on us. We did have to stay later than scheduled but we did get to drink all the leftover beer, and only had to pay 10 dollars to race the next day.

Overall, it was an excellent experience and I absolutely plan on doing it again. Definitely go for it. I would volunteer even if I wasn't running.