Today's letters: Race weekend an inspiration for volunteer

Race weekend an inspiration
I had the pleasure and privilege of volunteering at the marathon and half-marathon events. We folks from Pay it Forward were tasked with handing out bananas and oranges to runners who were not yet halfway through their races. For five hours, I watched the runners, from the elite marathoners who didn’t even stop to grab some sustenance, but literally flew by, to those who chose to walk the half-marathon, to those who were clearly in pain but whose faces spoke of