Going through race withdrawal

My next race is not until September 9 (the Ryka Iron Girl – Seattle – 10K) and I’m getting some itchy feet to run a race again. I haven’t been able to find anything that really works well with my training schedule though. The Robert Hamilton Memorial 5 mi and 10 mi road race is on Sunday August 26th is the closest thing coming up, but it still would have required a bit of schedule jiggling. Dawn (aka Pink Chick) suggested volunteering which sounded like a fabulous idea to me. So there we go – I’ll be at the race – not sure doing what exactly, but I expressed an interest to help out at the finish line since I’ve court marshaled and water stopped before. Might as well try something new.

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I did wind up signing up for another race though. The end of October, beginning of November is now going to be race crazy… I have the Nike Women’s Half Marathon October 21st. Then the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror 13K at Disney World on October 27th. Finally the Banff Winterstart 5 mi night time run caught my eye some time ago, I just wavered on signing up. I actually booked a hotel in Banff in case I wanted to run the race all the way back in early July. Today I decided to take the plunge and sign up since it was starting to fill up and I’m not sure if they cap the race. I am registrant number 731. I will really have to take it easy on this race because I’ll have a 15 miler to run the day after. I hear this event in Banff is a lot of fun though so I couldn’t pass it up (plus I hear you get beer tickets after the run – which will make that 15 miler feel even better). Wow….two night time races in back to back weekends. Should be interesting!