It wasn’t until after I got a few races under my belt and I started blogging about a few of them that I realized that I had a little problem with my initial format on grouping the races.  I saw where another person was numbering their races straight through from the beginning and I liked that.  They were already up to race number two hundred and fifty something.  Recently, I labeled the Mardi Gras Mambo as #4 since it was my fourth race under this new run initiative I began.  It was also my second race of 2013, my second race of the 13 in 2013 campaign and my first race in the 500K across the USA (one state down, forty-nine to go).  Afterwards I realized that this blog is meant to focus on the 50 state campaign.  Even though I’ll blog about other things, the main focus is the 50 states.  So to avoid confusion, that means I need to rethink my numbering logic.  It means I need to remove the #3 from the Advocate Cypress 5K and change the #4 Mambo to #1.  Actually, scratch that.  I walked most of the Mambo.  So I’m not even going to make it number one.  I believe I will focus on the Crescent City Classic to being my delegate from the great state of Louisiana.  Makes more sense to me.  I also need to get a map ready because I intend to complete state number one in less than two weeks and possibly state number two three weeks after that.  The Crescent City Classic follows right behind that, so I’ll be busy.  I’m also still working on my first run outside of the region.  It really depends on when I decide to go, but if I plan for Memorial Day weekend then I think I’ve narrowed it down to Boulder, Co and maybe Portland, Ore.  The Boulder 10K is a huge event while the Rum Run in Portland sounds interesting.  If I decide to wait until mid summer or Labor Day weekend, then it could be somewhere in the northeast.  I’d love to pair it up, run a race on Saturday in one state, then drive to a neighboring state on Sunday and run in a second race on Labor Day Monday.  Long holiday weekends will be a great and easy way to knock out two states in one trip.  I’m looking forward to knocking off some new england states very quickly that way.

So to recap, I’m editing my posts to renumber, so that it makes more sense.  Sorry for the confusion.