1.My friend Amanda and I participated in the Dirty Girl 5k run http://godirtygirl.com/mud-run/event/Buffalo-New-York-2013/45 that was held in early September in Buffalo, NY. This was a fun run to benefit women's breast cancer research. This was insane! There were thousands of women there to run throughout two days. The parking was crazu and the registration on race day was extremely disorganized. It caused us to miss our running time but that was okay as they weren't organized and we just hopped in the night heat 15 minutes later. Let's just say when they mean you get muddy, you get MUDDY! Whereas in the zombie 5k you got completely muddy, then rinsed off and so on, in this race you got muddy and then more muddy. I ended up with mud in places I never thought I'd get mud. It took 6 q-tips to get the mud out of just one ear! This was a really fun race that I'd recommend doing one time. The worst part of the entire thing was afterwords as it was a cold day, mud is cold, and you had to wait coral style forever to get into the shower tent which was just garden hoses shooting freezing cold water at you. I had the worst Raynauds attack and it was painful. We had to go get hot chocolate afterwords to just try and warm up.
2. Rochester began the First Niagara Fringe Festival, http://rochesterfringe.com/ last fall. It ended up being a hit so they brought it back this year. It's a 10 day festival with 360 performances in 28 venues throughout the city. Many events are free and others are low to medium cost. I saw Bandaloop, http://rochesterfringe.com/shows/show/bandaloop last year at the festival and they were performing again so I asked some friends if they wanted to go. In addition, I heard about the Cirque du Fringe, http://rochesterfringe.com/shows/show/cirque-du-fringe performance for the festival and one of the showtimes was right after Bandaloop. So my friends Marcy and Sara and I ended up going to both shows on a perfect Indian Summer fall day. It was a beautiful Friday night and stayed in the 80's well into the evening. There were tons of people milling about downtown for all of the different performances going on that night. The vibe was a bit like a mini NYC night. Both shows were awesome but the Cirque du Fringe was amazing! I didn't know my one friend had also read the book "The Night Circus", but as we were walking through the Magic Crystal Spiegel tent area heading into the 100 year old circus tent she said, "This reminds me of the opening line in The Night Circus 'It appeared from nowhere'" and that is exactly how it seemed that night. It was a magical evening topped with Abott's ice cream at 10pm during intermission.
3. This past Saturday I participated in the Stop the Trafficking 5k run hosted by Angels of Mercy, Inc. The organization that I volunteer for their "Dress A Girl Around the World" program. They have been planning this run which was their first race for about 6 months now and all of their hard work paid off yesterday. For a first event they had around 200 total runners I believe (a 5k and tot trot), lots of spectators and plenty of volunteer. The weather though a bit chilly was beautiful. The event was very well organized and went smoothly. The after run food tent was more of a feast! There was also raffles for prizes such as a signed Amy Wambach (she is originally from Rochester) jersey and framed photo. It was neat because I ended up seeing a woman from work there and she runs really fast (she placed 2nd overall for females) and then I saw my counterpart from St. John Fischer College (and found out she had run the Rochester City Marathon last weekend that I volunteered for) and she was there as a personal trainer for another woman who works where I work. It was fun to support each other at the run. I beat my personal best time! I got 24.56 min.! This was very exciting. Of course I felt like vomiting at the end but was really proud of myself. I finished 5th place overall for females and 31st out of 148 runners.
I have one photo and here are some links to the D&C article about the race. And a video from a Hollywood Celebrity (Keesha Sharp- she is originally from Rochester) who supported the cause.
*** Next up: I went with Amanda a week ago to volunteer for the Rochester City Marathon. We of course landed the top of the Ford St. bridge spot which stunk because it was a very cold day to be standing outside for 4 hours waving runners in the right direction, cheering them on, and ringing a cow bell non-stop. It was however very inspiring...so when Amanda asked me to run the Monster Scramble 10k on 10/20 through Mt. Hope Cemetery in costume I said yes! I must be nuts! Stay tuned to see if I survive the 10k run!
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