I am feeling better today about the Yuri’s Night run. We got some more sign-ups overnight (including some from friends — thanks guys) and though our numbers are still low, I think we’ll get enough to break even and maybe even make a few hundred bucks for our charities. I’m less stressed in the morning light.
There’s a part of me that wants this fun run to become a big event that draws hundreds of people. Some part of me feels like I’m failing if I can’t make the numbers grow every year. But then I realize that it’s not necessary for us to draw a huge crowd. Heck, I’m not sure that the park could even support more than a few hundred. I’d like to see closer to 200 participants, instead of the 100 we usually get, but it’s probably unrealistic of me to think that we can get that many when I’m doing the bulk of the work myself (partly my own fault) and when we’re competing with an already very busy race season in Houston.
So the race will be small, but it will happen. In the next few days, t-shirts will be ordered and age group awards will be figured out (suggestions?).
Life continues to be far too busy. I need to weed some things out, and cut back, but I remain unable to figure out how to actually do that. Class tonight, with a run afterwards, hopefully with the BAFT folks if we get out of class early (as we usually do). I don’t remember if I wrote about this already, but class has been particularly frustrating lately. This is the first time the prof has taught typography, and I don’t think he was prepared for a full semester. The first half of class went well, with plenty of interesting and useful material to fill up the time, but the last few weeks have really suffered. He seems to have run out of lectures, and instead of cancelling class, he just rambles for an hour or two. The students seem to have noticed, because attendance has taken a nose dive. Oh well — I’ll have some words for the course critique at the end of the semester.
I’m planning to do the LP Run tomorrow night. Can you believe it’ll be my first HARRA spring series appearance of this year? I know, it’s downright embarassing. Hoping I can do somewhere around 10:00 pace, but that’ll depend on how humid it is. We’ll see.