Houston Running: Yuri's Night 5K: Houston Running April Race of the Month

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Friday, March 31, 2006

Yuri's Night 5K: Houston Running April Race of the Month

Each month "Houston Running" will designate a Race of the Month that this blog will either partner with, attend in person and/or specifically help promote. Our Race of the Month for April 2006 will be the "Yuri's Night 5K / 1K Kids Run", which is directed by Houston Running Bloggers' Sarah Graybeal.

Yuri's Night is a global celebration of human space achievement, held on the anniversaries of the first human into space, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, and the flight of the first American space shuttle, Columbia. The official web site is http://www.yurisnighthouston.net/. Online registration can be accessed directly through this link.

"Houston Running" knows that there is a lot of race choices that Saturday; however, even though I didn't participate in this event last year, I'm personally knowledgeable that Sarah does a quality job on everything that she is involved in.

In most cases and in future months, "Houston Running" will look for the race director to provide a free race entry - in exchange for placement at the top of this blog for the entire month - that will be available in a drawing to all readers of this blog. How sweet is that?

Enjoy Yuri's Night 5K on Saturday, April 1st in Clear Lake and get ready also for May's "Houston Running" Race of the Month on Saturday, May 6th in Tomball - the 3rd annual Trot for ToMagWa 5K.

1 Comments:

Tiggs said...: you should make the photo strip a linked item too; 3:23 PM