The town of Fairview is a fairly close knit community. Every year the same police officers work along the race route ensuring the safety of drivers (a good portion of the race takes place on the open road and within the neighborhood) and several members of the Fairview PD have actually run the race as well. I see Officer Jones, or DJ as he prefers to be called, at the same spot on the race route every year, but THIS year I stopped to snap a selfie with him. He completed the race himself the next week when the race director ran the course with members of the police department.