I’m linking up again this month with Amanda at The Lady Okie and Becka at Sunshine To The Square Inch for their Runner’s Tell All monthly linkup. Be sure to pop over to their blogs to see what’s on their racing bucket lists, and to see who else is linking up.
This month, Amanda and Becka’s cue was to list the races on our running bucket list..
When I saw the prompt “Race Bucket List,” I was pretty excited to come up with some races that I’d like to run, and share with my readers. I’m actually surprised that in my almost two years of blogging I haven’t talked about a running bucket list. Here are my races, in no particular order…
1. Army Ten-Miler – I can’t believe that with all of the races I’ve run in DC over the years, that I’ve never run the Army Ten-Miler. It would have been so easy to just sign up at the last minute and run it in my early days of racing, but now I’ll have to enter with the masses and hope to get in!
2. Ragnar Trail Appalachians – Ragnar DC made me a believer, and now I want to run a Ragnar trail race, and Ragnar Trail Appalachians in West Virginia seems like a great place to start.
3. Ragnar Napa Valley – San Francisco to Napa Valley… Two hundred miles or relay running first, wine later. Wouldn’t this be a fun race?
4. Napa to Sonoma Wine Country Half Marathon – So if I don’t want to take 30 hours to get to the wineries, I could run the Napa to Sonoma Wine Country Half Marathon and get there in about two hours.
5. Varmint Half Marathon – Burke’s Garden is a bowl shaped depression in the mountains of southwestern Virginia. I visited there when I was a little girl, but remember nothing about it. My parents always talked about how beautiful it was, and Bill and I have always planned to return and visit. What better way to take a tour of a place that I want to visit again than by running a half marathon through the cove?
6. Blue Ridge Half Marathon – This is another marathon that Bill and I considered running years ago, but never got around to doing. Now that I’ve gotten to know Meagan and she speaks so highly of it (actually, I think she loves to hate it), I really want to run Blue Ridge, but I’ll stick to the half.
7. New York City Marathon – If I were still running marathons, the NYC Marathon would definitely still be on my bucket list. For some reason, I never signed up for it, and regret not doing so.
8. Chicago Marathon – The same is true with the Chicago Marathon; if I were still running marathons, I’d want to run it.
9. Venice Marathon – I’m including the Venice Marathon on my bucket list because it’s been on there for years; although at this point, it’s just a “wish we’d done it” race. Bill and I have friends that live in Vincenza, Italy, and for years we said that we would visit them and run the marathon while we were in the area.
10. Athens Marathon – Several years ago my friend Jimmy tried to get the Cruisers to run the Athens Marathon with him, after his brother ran it and raved about it. I mean seriously; someone like me who loves running should have jumped at the chance to run the original marathon! Right?
- Questions:
- Which of these races have you run?
- What’s on your race bucket list?
- Who raced this weekend?
Napa to Sonoma is definitely on my list!!
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Wouldn’t that be fun?
great list, Debbie! New York is on my list as well 🙂
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I think it would be amazing, and have SO MUCH crowd support!
I’m running Chicago for the 2nd year in a row. It’s such a fun race and if you ever get back to marathoning I recommend it! NYC is on my bucket list as is Napa to Sonoma. That would be beautiful!
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Cool! Good luck and have fun running Chicago again!
This is an awesome list! I’ve seen the Army 10 miler on a lot of lists and I’ve never even heard of it! NYC and Chicago would both be amazing too! Athens made my list, but Venice would definitely be on it if I were to revise it. Running there would be a dream!
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The Army Ten-Miler runs through DC and past a lot of the monuments, so that’s why it’s a very desirable race.
I like your list! Isn’t it weird how sometimes life offers us a once in a lifetime deal and was pass? I’m not sure why we do that but sometimes that is just how it works out.
I always thought running in Athens would be really neat but I also thought they waaaay overcharge for it because they can. =) It might be worth the money though. I also think NYC would be great because it is the people’s run.
Question – Have you ran Boston?
I’ve run Boston twice. I ran it after the first time I qualified, and the last time I qualified. There were several years in between that I didn’t want to go up alone. My husband missed qualifying by eight seconds one year! Sigh!
I remember signing up for ATM (maybe 2007 or 2008 -only 6-7 years ago) at the last minute! I remember signing up for MCM on paper 🙂 I would love to run Napa to Sonoma.. that race sells out quickly too.
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Those were the good old days! I registered for the Marine Corps Marathon on paper in late-July, and paid $35 back in 1997! 🙂
Great list! You know, it’s a funny thing you mentioned Ragnar Trail Appalachian, because Barry and I were just checking that race out last week 🙂 Count us in! I really think you should come do Blue Ridge (which yes, is a love/hate relationship… but I keep going back!) and the Varmint next year!
The year I ran Army Ten Miler was a nightmare. The race itself, although crowded, was pretty neat. It was the first (and only) time I had run in DC. But the day they held the race there were like three trains down on the Metro and that almost made the race not worth running.
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I’ll keep you posted in January as I plan out my race calendar for 2015. I’d definitely like to run both of those races next year.
If we run a Ragnar trail race, what will Roger do? Perhaps we should run both, so we’ll get the extra medal, and Roger will get to drive us again. I LOVED his comment about having to find another team to chaperone if the Cruisers didn’t run again next year! 🙂
wine country half is defnitely on my list too. somehow my hubbie and i managed to squeak our way into nyc this year and we’re really looking forward to it.
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Congrats on getting into NYC. Hope you have an amazing experience!
Wow – you have some big races on your list – hope you get to do them all!!
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I hope to do the first six. The last four are marathons I’d love to run if I were still running marathons…
I think I want to do everything on your list! Especially Ragnar Napa, Wine Country Half, Venice (I didn’t even know they had one there! Is it on the mainland or do you run around all the canals?), and Athens.
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Check out the race course here for the Venice Marathon. Of the two, I think I’d rather do Athens, just because it was the original marathon.
I would love to run in Chicago or Athens. Wouldn’t that be awesome!? I’ve hard about the wine country race, and that sounds really fun too. There are just so many fun places I want to run! Need to start saving 🙂
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I’ve run the Virginia Wine Country Half Marathon three times, and it’s a beautiful race. I think Napa to Sonoma would be beautiful, too!