The Start. I am somewhere in this mass of people. I didn't even hear the gun go off. Things were quite confusing, since there were two waves, one at 8:15am and one at 8:45am, and the 8k start in between. I was in the second wave. I had to ask two women if I was in the right place. (Like there was another marathon going on down the road). I was nervous and jittery.