Update: I just found out that my pre-registration was cancelled due to the fact that 10,000 people have already signed up to run the race in Istanbul.  Apparently there is a cap on how many people can participate.  Boooooooo!  Maybe they should have told me this when I registered!  Anyway, guess this just means I will be running on the treadmill that day.

In non-lazy days of summer news, it looks like I’m going to run a 10K at the end of the month!  The race is the Nike Plus Human Race – it’s basically the world’s largest organized race taking place in 25 cities worldwide on 8.31.08. They anticipate over a million people either running in one of the organized races or at home online which could make this the single largest sporting event in history.  Pretty amazing.  Istanbul and New York are two of the competing cities, so if anyone wants to run against me, let me know!  

Here in Istanbul, I’ll be running across one of the two bridges that cross the Bosphorous in Istanbul (the Bogazici Bridge) – probably my only opportunity ever to cross the bridge by foot as this is not like the Brooklyn Bridge where cars and pedestrians use it.  Anyway, I’ve only ever run a 5K before just this past May in the Revlon Run/Walk (my first ever race) so this 10K should prove to be challenging.  Updates on my training later…

http://nikeplus.nike.com/nikeplus/humanrace/index.jsp?sitesrc=persist_tout