London 2012 blog

When the alarm went off at 7.30am on Sunday morning I was seriously regretting the decision to give up my lie-in to volunteer at this year’s London Marathon, particularly as my role would be as a very unglamorous baggage handler!

So what does a baggage handler do? We make sure that every bag left by runners at the start gets back to them when they cross the line. Each bag is numbered and put onto a lorry.

The lorries then drive to the finish where myself and about 500 other volunteers are waiting. There are about 15 volunteers allocated to each lorry and the first task was to sort the bags into numerical order (always quite stressful when you’re still half asleep on a Sunday morning!).

Read more of “Glamour and emotion: a Marathon volunteer”