Roaring across the finish line at the 2014 Cherry Blossom 10 Mile Run |
Why should you be our Social Media Runner?
I have been training to be the Cherry Blossom Social Media
Runner for the past year and I am ready! I ran the Cherry Blossom 10 Mile Run
last year and it was my FIRST BIG RACE! I had a blast, I met my goals, and I
made running friends - both in-person and online.
Two things that helped teach me about CUCB & being a
good social media runner were my training with Potomac River Running (PR) and
interactions with last year’s social runners. I trained with PR’s Cherry
Blossom-specific training program and blogged about my training at
kimruns.blogspot.com. I followed last year’s social runners, Fran and Doug, and
interacted with them (especially on twitter) and learned how to raise excitement
and awareness for the race. I also followed the CUCB Blog and included my recap of the 2014 race on the “Race Recap Party” link-up and thoroughly enjoyed
reliving the fun of the race through everyone’s recaps.
This year I will again train with PR’s Cherry Blossom
program. I will not only blog about *my* training & goals for CUCB, but I
will also share the stories of other PR CUCB training participants – what is their
“why” for running this race? What are their goals? Readers of my blog can
follow a whole contingent of CUCB runners and their preparation – some running
their first 10-miler, some looking to get faster, some just looking to have fun
in a quintessential DC race. Here is my working draft question template for my
interviewees:
- When did you begin running and why?
- What is your proudest running moment? (alternatively: What is your weirdest/funniest running moment?)
- Why did you sign up for CUCB training with PR?
- Have you run CUCB before?
- What is your “why” for running the 2015 CUCB?
- What is your goal for 2015 CUCB?
- Do you have a running mantra?
- If you could use only one word to express what running means to you, what would it be?
Over the past year I've seen both good (Nike Women’s Half Marathon & CUCB) and less good (Army Ten-Miler) examples of social media
race engagement. I will strive to emulate the good – interacting with fellow
runners, retweeting/favoriting/replying to their tweets, sharing information about
the race, training, the charity (Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals), the
course, and the expo. I loved Doug Cassaro’s photo blog of the course from last
year – that is a great way to inform people and raise their enthusiasm about
the race!
I genuinely love running and would be honored to share my affection
for the Cherry Blossom 10 Mile Run as one of the Social Runners for the 2015
race. I have already bought my ticket for the kickoff reception ( I’ll bet I
was one of the first to do so!) and I will be there with my contagious
enthusiasm!
Lovely! I will be rooting for you Kim :)
ReplyDeleteThank you Jennifer! I will be rooting for you this weekend to have an awesome race at the NYC Marathon!
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ReplyDeleteThank you Deborah! I hope you are applying - you would be a fantastic social runner :)
DeleteGood luck, Kim! I hope you are picked! Not sure I'll be out there cheering this year - but maybe! I had a lot of fun last year!
ReplyDeleteThank you Gina! Seeing you and your bunny ears on Memorial Bridge was one of my race highlights last year :)
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