at it again...

welp... i've gone and done it again.  i signed up for yet another race.  *sigh*

i simply cannot seem to help myself.  i really really wanted to be a part of this race last year and couldn't do it for conflicting events so this year i'm cramming it in.  i would have preferred to do a longer distance but i'm running a 1/2 the weekend before so i opted for the 5K.

what am i blabbering on about you're probably wondering... i signed up for the north face endurance challenge 5K trail run.  beautiful course.  i cannot tell you how wonderful these trail systems are.  if you can swing this race (any distance) i highly encourage you to do so!  as a bonus dean karnazes will be there on friday at the north face store at brookfield square as well as on the saturday race day for a meet and greet.  i'm super excited and am hoping to get a picture taken with him.  hokey i know but i guess i'm a nerd like that.

i've met all kinds of musicians and pro-skateboarders and even some actors... i couldn't care less about it.   hell, i've even had the weird pleasure (?) of meeting ron jeremy once (he was perfectly respectable and quite nice) and i didn't blink an eyelash... but put a couple of running icons in front of me and i'm speechless.  what a dork.

and now i'm going to leave you with this video that nic over at left-right-repeat so kindly posted in a link in the comments of my last entry.  it's so great.  only 3 more days until he and i are running at DWD - him with the 50K and me with the half marathon.  maybe we'll alternate being the gazelle AND the lion.