2010 Races

I have started to add races to my 2010 Calendar I am a member of Half Fanatics I ran 2 marathons in 16 days and 3 in 90 days August - October 2009. They have different levels of Fanatics I am at the first level. My goal is to go up to the next level. My goal is to run 8 Half Marathon's in a year on top of the 2 marathon's I am registered for. Here is their website if you want to check them out www.halffanatics.com they also have a group called Marathon Maniacs for a similar group but they run marathons.

Here are the races I am registered for so far in 2010:

Surf City Marathon - 2/7/10
Riverton City Half Marathon - 3/27/10
Salt Lake City Half Marathon - 4/17/10 (1800Contacts is paying for me to run)
Ogden Marathon - 5/15/10
Utah Valley Half Marathon - 6/12/10

Here is the list of races I want to try to run but haven't registered for yet:

Deseret Morning News 10k - 7/24/10
Provo River Trail Half Marathon - 8/7/10
Hobble Creek Half Marathon - Late August
Top of Utah Half Marathon - Late August
Salt Lake Half Marathon - 9/4/10

Maybe:
Moab Other Half Marathon - 10/17/10
Provo City Half Marathon - 5/1/10
Park City Half Marathon - 8/21/10 If it isn't the same weekend as Hobble Creek


If I can get money for an airplane ticket I would love to visit my sister again and run:

American River Parkway Half Marathon 5/1/10 I registered last year but didn't run due to injury. They said I could run it for free this year but I can't afford the flight right now.

so maybe I will have money to go see her next fall and run:
Lake Natoma four Bridges Half Marathon - 10/31/10

Long story short Jason has been really sick the past year and hasn't been able to work since April.

So I thought I would donate plasma to afford registrations fees and travel for Surf City. I hate donating plasma but it is good money. If I donate 2 times in a week I get $55.

But it hurts and I almost passed out last time I donated. My blood flow was slow so they tried to see if they could get my blood flow to go faster by digging the huge needle around in my arm and it made me sick. I got light headed and really hot. It was so weird I have never felt the way before in my life. They put a ice pack on my neck, raised my feet, had me sip on water, and they returned my blood that was in the machine that was being collected to be processed. I was going to go again that week but it was the day before I ran 20 miles and I didn't feel good about donating the day before running 20 miles.

I haven't gotten the nerves to go donate again after that happening. Looks like I need to get over my fear of last time and start donating again so I can afford race registrations :)