What's next?

What’s next?

Guess what? I may actually have my race calendar planned out for next year already (I'm not actually registered for all of them, I just have them planned in my head).  And you know what, at this point there are no Disney races on it. Can you believe that????  That doesn’t mean I won’t be going to Disney at all next year, it just means that as of right now I don’t plan to do any of the races. Of course that could change, but really there are none out there now that I have the desire to run again in 2017. This will be the first time in 7 years that I won’t be running at Disney. 

But that’s okay because I have some new "plans", which include running some bigger city races.  
I've done plenty of Race-cations in years past and I have to say that I'm kind of over it. I want to go places that I can go and come back all in the same weekend.  I say this because I need to start picking places where I can take Baylee because I don't like leaving her for too long anymore.

These races don’t have to be all half marathons or marathons to meet my “goal” either. I’m happy to visit a city and run even a smaller race.

This video is sums it up.

If you want to have a catchy tune stuck in your head all day, you'll want to listen to this song. My middle school kids absolutely Love it.


I've done a lot of "Big" races, such as Disney, Runner's World, some beach races, but as far as large City races, I'm thinking the only one I can check off my list for that would be Las Vegas.

Here are the cities I’m hoping to run in at some point. I picked these because I already have races in mind but feel free to suggest other races too (right now I’m only picking cities on the East Coast because they are driveable).

City Hopefuls

1.       Washington DC – I have my eye on the Army 10 miler, but I don’t like the fact that you don’t get a finisher medal. I may consider doing any other Military type race.

2.       Pittsburgh- I really want that medal that says “Runner of Steel” for obvious reasons.

3.       New York City- I definitely want to run through Central park and times square.

4.       Baltimore (or maybe Annapolis) – I’ve seen a few good races in this area. I guess this one is going to boil down to what time of year I’ll have available.

5.       Philadelphia- This one is a big MAYBE and I just threw it on the list because it’s a big city that I should probably put on my list (how’s that for logic?)!

I also have some smaller races on the schedule but they aren't big cities so I'll share them later when we talk about our Spring racing schedule.

What races will you be traveling for this year?  Will you be singing that song all day? -M