A runner stops to talk to volunteers while fighting back the chill that quickly set in as runners' bodies cooled from their exertion.
A parade of silver-wrapped runners march awkwardly and painfully through the long chute, heading next to get a bag of post-race snacks. Many runners had the same painful, tight quadricep shuffle that set in almost immediately after they stopped running.
Some runners checked their phones as soon as they finished, others marched with a dead-eyed stare past the volunteers, but a few stopped for a moment to take in the moment.
