It’s been a busy week and I’m glad to see it end. Not that I don’t have a busy weekend planned as well…but at least the weekend has some large blocks of free time, as well as, you know, a whole extra day! A part of me always thinks it’s silly that we get MLK day off work when we just came back from the holidays two weeks ago. But hey, vacation days are vacation days, and they’re always nice.
Tonight I’m heading downtown to pick up my half marathon packet at the convention center and then eat pasta at the Spaghetti Warehouse with my fellow Houston Running Bloggers. (We have a cool photo of us on our front page now. Woot.) Running the Half, and cheering for the marathoners once I’m done running myself, will take up most of my day on Sunday. Oh, I did my last pre-half run last night, an easy 3 miles at 11:20 pace. It felt great. It felt leisurely. I am so happy that 11:20 feels leisurely again. I really am not sure what I expect to run on Sunday, but I know I will be very happy with anything under 11:00/mile, or ~2:24:00. I feel confident that I can do that.
We had the first official Yuri’s Night 2006 meeting last night, which has spurred me to get some of the initial race planning underway. We have a date — April 1. It’s a little earlier than I’d like, but the following weekend I’ll be out of town for Andrew’s wedding, and the weekend after that is Easter. So April Fool’s Day it is. Seriously. I’ll be sending checks to USATF today for event sanctioning, and yesterday I got online registration up and running. I now need to call the parks office and communicate well enough that we avoid the issues we had last year (they apparently didn’t know our event was happening even though I’d called them, booked the pavilion, etc).
I’ve got a list of websites to work on this weekend as well. First on the list is a very simple page for Chris’s new side business; I’ll post a link when it’s done. Second is a little more work on the RRCA convention page. I’ve been harboring thoughts of a redesign for a month (the current page is functional and nice enough, but not entirely like how I’d originally planned for it to be) but haven’t had time. I don’t know if I’ll get it done this weekend, but there are some tweaks it needs either way. Third is Carter, who wants a redesign. And last at the moment is my photoblog, which needs/wants a redesign.
My exciting life, eh?
