More kinds of races

Haven't written in a year but just in case anyone is still checking or has an RSS feed...

Doing exclusively off-road sprint tri's has been too limiting, especially since there is only one in Massachusetts and probably four in all of New England. You can double those numbers if you include duathlons and Xterras but it's still just too narrow. So, I decided to widen things up a bit and look at other kinds of races. I've already done two 10K races. Not trail running just plain old 10K's on the road. I did the Cohasset 10k about a month ago and the Ramble 10K in Dedham, Ma a couple of weeks ago. It's not the same as running in the woods but you know what, it's not that bad. Also it gives me a chance to run with my wife since she's been doing 5k and 10k's for years. Yes she kicks my butt out there but hey, I'm new at this.

I'm also looking at xterras, mtn bike races, on-road tri's whatever. Know of a good race? Let me know. This year there are some GREAT new sites for finding events and such. You are no longer limited to FIRM and Active's crappy sites. Here are some innovative sites:

runningInTheUsa.com (fantastic site for all kinds of racing events)

mapmyrun.com (aka mapmytri.com) (clever and improving rapidly)


triMapper.com (very clever site. Allows search by type of tri including off-road vs. on-road. But poorly maintained)

OneMillionRevolutions.org (I stumbed on this one while looking at the Cohasset Tri site. It seems to have all the USAT sanctioned races mapped out. You can search by state and date. Lots of local tri's in there!)


I've added these links to the right margin of this page quasi-permanently.