What year is it?

Maritime Race Weekend was only a couple weeks ago, but I’m already referring to it as last year. My year doesn’t end on December 31st – it finishes when the last runner crosses the finish line on race day.

I’ve been planning the 2016 race weekend for a couple months. The swag is in the final stages of design and I’m almost ready to reveal it. Medals have been sketched out and prototypes are being made. Registration is already open.

This year, I opened registration early and took advice from a very wise friend. He suggested to have a loyalty perk for returning pirates for our five-year anniversary. Since the race always sells out, those loyal runners got access to register on October 1st well before everyone else. Within twenty-four hours of registration officially opening, Maritime Race Weekend is already 30 per cent full and the race is still eleven and a half months away. My goal is to eventually have a twenty-four hour sell-out time, but I’m still trying to figure out how to make that happen. A quicker sell-out time would allow me more time to work on race logistics and hopefully reduce my work week from sixty hours to forty.

I’ve had a number of runners tell me, Maritime Race Weekend is the only race they’ll sign-up for before the swag and medals are revealed. I take that as a huge compliment and I promise not to disappoint the early birds. Over the next month, all the details of 2016 will be revealed. Feedback has been that race weekend continues to get better each year.

Next year will be extraordinary, just wait until you hear what’s planned for the five-year anniversary. Expect the unexpected.