My Upcoming Races


My Upcoming Races

Note: All races are tentative until I actually run them! I might or might not show up on any given day.

May 2021

05/08/21
Cherry Blossom 5k
Cherryville, NC
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05/15/21
Belmont Classic 5k
Belmont, North Carolina
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05/22/21
Timmy Belcher Memorial Rainbow Kidz Ride & Run
Statesville, NC
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05/29/21
Epps Orthodontics K9-5K
Sumter, SC
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 June 2021
06/05/21
Jaycees Summer Kickoff 5k
Belmont, NC
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06/12/21
Run the South (5k, 10k, & Half Marathon)
Charlotte, NC


06/19/21
Charlevoix Marathon (I'm running the 10k & my son's running the marathon)
Charlevoix, Michigan
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06/27/21
Charlotte RaceFest (10k & Half Marathon)
Charlotte, NC
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 July 2021


07/10/21
The Scream! Half Marathon
Jonas Ridge, NC
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 August 2021

08/28/21
Goat Island Games 5k
Cramerton, NC
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September 2021

09/18/21
Stop Soldier Suicide 5k/10k
Belmont, NC
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09/25/21
Running with the Good News 5k
Dallas, NC
(No Additional Info)


October 2021

10/09/21
Bit of Hope Trail Run 5k
Gastonia, NC
(No Additional Info)


10/23/21
YMCA Trick or Trail 5k
Gastonia, NC
(No Additional Info)

10/30/21
Stanley Creek Massacre 5k/10k
Stanley, NC
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Race #489 -- Red Carpet 5k -- Albemarle, NC -- 04/25/21

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With the Academy Awards being held on this night, Vac & Dash decided to celebrate the event with a 5k for those of us who weren't invited to the gala in Hollywood. No acting was required although some might accuse me of trying to act like a runner these days. As is the case with most Vac & Dash races, it was a lot of fun. V&D owner Peter Asciutto (pronounced uh-SHOO-toe) says that his main goal is that when runners drive home after an event they smile and think, "That was a fantastic event." It's an almost 2-hour drive from home for me to get to Albemarle so I don't go there as often as I'd like, but I've run quite a few of the Vac & Dash races over the years and have never been disappointed.  This was the third and final race of the Vac & Dash Trifecta, a series of races all held on Sunday afternoons in March and April, and the weather was perfect for all three races. For those runners who competed in this race as well as the Easter Eg
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Race #487 -- The Country Mile 5k -- Slater-Marietta, SC -- 04/11/2021

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The plan was to drive the camper van the 100 miles or so just north of Greenville, camp out, and enjoy watching some of the 48-hour, 24-hour, and 50k ultramarathon races before running the 5k myself on Sunday morning. Turns out that by the time we arrived on Saturday afternoon there was a huge storm coming through and it rained the rest of the evening. That didn't deter the ultra runners but it did keep Linda and I hunkered down in the van until Sunday morning. I paid an extra 25 bucks for a camping spot in the designated RV camping area but it was packed when we got there. We were able to park right at the starting line/timing mat which we did for about 30 minutes until we decided that the nonstop music blasting from the speakers was way too loud for our 69-year-old ears, so we opted to cross the street and park in the "Day Use" parking area which was a much tamer option.  No doubt the focus of this racing event was the ultra distances, so the 5k on Sunday morning seemed
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Race #488 -- Charlotte 10 Miler -- Charlotte NC -- 04/17/2021

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Celebrating its tenth year, the Charlotte 10 Miler & 4 Mile Run has for several years been one of Charlotte's premier races. It's been a favorite for me and a lot of runners I know and has attracted some of the best runners from the area. The 10-mile distance is kind of a rarity, with most races sticking with the more standard distances such as 5k, 10k, half marathon, etc. The 10-mile distance presents a little different challenge. This was my 488th race but only my ninth 10-miler. It was my slowest 10-miler ever but that's not too surprising since it was four years ago when I last ran the 10-mile distance.  This year's race featured a rolling start, with runners beginning their races over an excruciatingly long 4-hour time frame from 7 a.m. until 11 a.m. due to Covid restrictions. The entire race was run on the McMullen Creek Greenway, obviating the need to close down any roads for traffic concerns, and since it was a rolling start the single pathway down to the ma
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Race #490 -- Myrtle Beach Half Marathon -- Myrtle Beach, SC -- 05/01/2021

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The Myrtle Beach Half Marathon has been the race I've been most looking forward to as the pandemic subsides and things get back to normal. It's been a favorite of mine in the past and when I saw that the date had changed from early March to May 1st I jumped at the chance to run it again. The temperature in the low 60s at the start of the race was perfect for me and the weather remained comfortable throughout the race.  My goal was to finish in under 2 hours to extend my streak of sub-2-hour half marathons to 115, and my intention was to use the same strategy that has been working for me in races so far this year, which was to run pretty hard for 70 seconds then do a light jog for 20 seconds and continue this pattern throughout the race. Just a few seconds into the race I thought about what happened in last week's 5k. I had used my normal 70:20 ratio of run/jog and it worked okay for the first 2 miles, but then in the last mile I ended up walking 5 times! The walk breaks wer
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Race #184 - The Scream! Half Marathon - Jonas Ridge, NC - 07/14/12

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It was the second running of The Scream! Half Marathon, which is a point-to-point race that begins in the North Carolina mountains in the town of Jonas Ridge and ends about 2,000 feet below in Mortimer, which as far as I can tell isn't really a town but more like a small, sparsely populated community that might or might not be found as the smallest dot on a map. I ran it last year and it was a lot of fun and the only half marathon I know of anywhere in the Carolinas in the month of July. Since I try to run at least one half marathon every month it'll probably be on my schedule for as long as they have it in July or until I give up on the half-marathon-a-month business. Incidentally, this was my 10th half marathon of 2012 and my 40th half marathon since I began running almost four years ago. My reasoning has been that if I run a lot of half marathons I'll get used to them and it won't be a big deal, and while that plan seems to have worked in some ways it's still
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