Race Directors: Don’t Run Out of Water – Ever

I don’t often agree with folks posting on Reddit, and usually when I link to it I do so to make fun of the post, but ‘BigSpoon89’ nails this one so hard:

Under no circumstances can an aid station be forced to ration water to runners and you sure as hell can’t run out of water. Full stop. This cannot happen.

The comments on the post are sobering and paint a fairly brutal picture: Races also over, from big to small, from historic to new, from legendary to corporate have had this issue, but this cannot be an excuse and needs to be addressed and corrected.

The poster conclude:

RDs please head. It doesn’t matter how great the food is at the finish line or how cool the t shirts are if people are DNFing your races because you couldn’t supply them water.

As an RD myself, I post this as a reminder to myself and others: Water doesn’t seem the highest priority on the list of things to think about, but in the end it should probably one of the most important things – and it’s cheap – so there are no excuses.