Good thing it wasn’t one I had to pre-register for. It was a small trail race that you sign up for the day of. I was new to town and for some silly reason thought the race was on Sunday.

Saturday had been a nice sunny day. Sunday the temperature dropped to like -25C. I went anyway. Since the race start was only 2k from my place I jogged over to the meeting spot. No one around. Hmmm, maybe that should have been my first clue. I waited and ran around the parking lot to stay warm finally 1/2hour after was was to be start time I gave up and figured the “wimps” had called it due to cold temperatures.

I posted an email about it on our group side. Later I got a reply telling me I should check the race schedule as the trail races are ALWAYS on the SATURDAY. Boy did I feel dumb. Strangely enough, I’m now the race director for that very event, so I will never again mix up the date/day…lol.