Mission: This is a self-guided mission to volunteer/race a 100 races to learn the craft of race making (and remain healthy) in order to become a race director. Everyone is the strongest version of themselves during race day. After losing a 150 lbs., I took an oath to help anyone who's stuck where I once was. I mainly focus on novelty races, Obstacle-course races, and fun runs which I believe hold the biggest potential to start a running revolution. I have so-far participated in 20 races as a volunteer or competitor. Volunteering roles have varied between setting up the courses, registering racers, finish line announcement, promotion, course planning, and setting up parking spots. I have learned invaluable lessons that could be utilized in event management, marketing, and team leadership. 80 races to go....
List of races:
19 One Punch Man's 7-day Challenge. Drove from Maryland to Arizona over a week. 100 push-ups, 100 squats, 10 minutes of planking, running 10k for every day of the road trip. Atypical race 25/12/2017 18 ParkRun College Park 5k. Raced and PR'ed but I almost DNS. 25/11/2017 17 BoneFrog Challenge. Raced and accidently (read undeservedly) won 1st place. 18/11/2017 16 Zombie 5k. Volunteered announcing finishers and handing medals/raced for dear life escaping zombies. 10/11/2017 15 inflatable 5k race. Race bouncer (NO RACE BANDITS)/ volunteered to insure no injuries and organize the waves. 14 The marines corps marathon. First big failure. DNS 13 End hunger obstacle course run. Volunteered for check-in and raced the course 12 Spartan NJ 11/04/2017. Volunteered for children's course / racer 11 Harper's Ferry Marathon. Raced and finished deadlast of my age group. Hardest day of my life. 09/30/2017 10 Harper's Ferry Marathon. Volunteer check-in 09/29/2017 9 Part-time construction. Raceday volunteer. 8 Color run. 09/17/2017. Brand ambassador for sponsor's, SquattyPotty 7 Terrain monkey: volunteer for clean-up and packing equipment into trucks/ran course. 07/11/2017 6 Terrain monkey. Race day volunteer to insure the safety of contestants / ran 07/10/2017 5 Tough Mudder. Clean up and finish-line volunteer/ Raced 06/11/2017 4 Tough Mudder. Accidentally walk/jogged a marathon. Race day volunteered as a volunteer leader 06/10/2017 3 Tough Mudder. Judge for new Toughest mile on earth/volunteered 06/09/2017 2 Tough Mudder. Put together registration tents and were trained for check-in device/volunteered 06/08/17 1 Tough Mudder. Constructed obstacles and marked route/volunteered 06/07/2017