Wow, I didn’t realize how long it has been since I last posted here. Oops.
Anyhooo… I’m 2 weeks out from the Napa Valley Marathon. March 7, 2010. Training is going “eh”. I will finish the race, but I have no expectations for my goal or finish time.
Two weeks later… L.A. Marathon. So that’s going to be interesting to see how it goes running two marathons two weeks apart. March 21, 2010.
After that, my plan was mostly triathlons for the rest of the year. But, looking at my availability, I am really not able to get to one until July. So, I will focus my training on triathlon after March. But I will do some running races until I can get some actual triathlons into my schedule.
Here is my tentative schedule for this year (2010):
- Feb. 7 (Sun) – Surf City Half Marathon – (done)
- March 7 (Sun) – Napa Valley Marathon
- March 21 (Sun) – L.A. Marathon
- April 10 (Sat) – Seal Beach 5K – Family Run. Chris, Jenny and I.
- May 8 (Sat) – Xterra Malibu Trail Run – maybe. maybe not. Have done this event before.
- June 5 (Sat) – Fontana Days Half Marathon – Running for sure. maybe a PR?
- July 4th – some 5K race? Not sure which one …
- July 18 (Sun) – Strawberry Fields Tri – for sure. Sprint or Oly? Not sure.
- Aug. 14 (Sat) – Hansen Dam Tri – Highly Likely. Did this last year. Date is a guess. The website is not updated for this year yet.
- Sept. 11/12 (Sat/Sun) – Malibu Triathlon. Oly on the 11th. Sprint on the 12th. Not sure which.
- Oct. 10 (Sun) – OC Triathlon in Mission Viejo – possibly? maybe not.
- Nov. 8 (Sun) – Catalina Triathlon – Chris says he’s going to do this too. I had a lot of fun at this event last year.
- Nov 23 (Thu) – some Turkey Trot … again…not sure which one…
You may notice, from my previous post in 2009, that I left the Ragnar Relay off. I have already taken off time from work for the Surf City Half Marathon, the Napa Marathon, the L.A. Marathon and I will probably have to take off time for the Catalina Tri. I don’t want all my vacation days to be for races. So…decided to give Ragnar a miss this year. Maybe next year. (Anyhow, my daughter Kaitlin is graduating from college this year…have to save some days off from work for that!)
For the past 3 years I’ve done the Huntington Beach 5K on the Fourth of July. May do that one again, but there are certainly other possibilities. Probably won’t be trying for a PR this year, though, given the proposed race schedule.
Also, we’ve done the Dana Point Turkey Trot for the past 3 years, also. But that event is really crowed and… dunno…might do a different one this year.
