Thursday, February 28, 2013

I hope there's Guinness!

Two additions have now been made to my 2013 Race Calendar - both early season running events.

First up is the 5th Annual Kelly's Running of the Leprechauns 8k in Nags Head, NC on Saturday March 16th.  A nice race that features both "hard top" and trails (and, apparently, quite a few crazies in costume!)



Should be fun!   The following day I will be donning my GSOBX bike shirt and riding in the annual St. Paddy's Day Parade (the biggest in NC apparently) to help promote bicycle safety on the Outer Banks (I hope I remember my helmet!)  ;-)

After that, on Saturday April 6th I will be running the St. Timothy's Spring Sprint in North Hills, Raleigh,  This is part of the Second Empire Grand Prix Series and was a fun event when I ran it a couple of years back.  Perhaps a bit hilly for a 5k, but I think the course has been changed since then,



Any of my Raleigh buds want to join me for this one?

I'm hoping that for the Running of the Leprechauns, which is sponsored by Kelly's Restaurant (and for the Spring Sprint for that matter...), there may be a few of these at the finish!

 

Saturday, February 16, 2013

2013 Race Calendar

Well, after a lot of thought, I have finally come-up with my provisional race calendar for 2013 (provisional because life is crazy and family and work will come first and there are bound to be some unanticipated conflicts!).

Here goes:

Saturday March 09.          Cary Duathlon – short course.  2.5/17.65/2.5 (C)

Saturday April 06             St. Timothy's Spring Sprint 5k

Saturday April 20              IOS Olympic at Beaverdam (B)

Saturday May 4                 White Lake Spring International (C)

Sunday June 2                   Ironman Raleigh 70.3 (A)

Saturday July 20                Triangle Tri (Sprint) (B)

August                               To be determined.  Likely something at the coast.

Sunday September 15       Finish Strong Half Iron 70.3 (tentative) (B)

September 21/22              Outer Banks Olympic (Sat) or Sprint (Sun).  (B or C)   Will definitely be the sprint if I do FS 70.3 the week before!!!

Saturday October 26         Beach to Battleship 70.3 (A)

Sunday November 10       Outer Banks Half Marathon.   This will be strictly for fun with friends!

Thanksgiving                     Outer Banks Gobbler 5k


Race importance/priority is in parenthesis.  My two primary target races for this year will be Raleigh Ironman 70. and Beach-to-Battleship 70.3.   Links for all races are in the right hand panel.

I will be looking for a few more 5ks and 10ks to sprinkle in for training purposes.

Phew!   That should do it!