I just got an email about the planning for this year’s Yuri’s Night 5K Fun Run, the race that I started in 2004. At first, I was surprised, because the email simply said that they’d chosen a race director for this year and just wanted to know if I’m available to answer any questions. What? They don’t want me to help?
Then I remembered that 1) planning a race is really stressful and 2) if I’d wanted to do it, I certainly would have volunteered by now. So I’m excited. This year I’ll actually be able to run the race for the first time. And it’s also really, really cool to see that the race has survived so far without me planning it — which was my biggest worry when I first realized I wouldn’t be able to do it last year.
The Yuri’s Night race has become a self-perpetuating fun run, and I’m the founder! That’s pretty cool, since that was my goal all along.
I hope you’ll all consider running it — I plan to. I don’t know the date yet, but it’ll be in early-mid April. Keep your eye on the website.
