Weekend Outlook

What's going on in and around(ish) the Triangle this weekend?:

• The Day of the Dead 5K (sponsored by Dos Taquitos) is on Saturday at 8AM beginning/ending at their restaurant on Wilmington St.
• The American Tobacco Trail 10-miler is on Saturday at 8:50AM (parking at the White Oak Baptist Church).
• The Roctoberfest Half Marathon is on Saturday at 7:40AM in Charlotte.
• The Ridge to Bridge Marathon is Saturday at 8AM in Jonas Ridge.
• The Myrtle Beach Mini Marathon is on Sunday at 7AM... mini-marathon sounds so much nicer... makes 13.1-miles seem short!

And, most importantly the E3 CROSS COUNTRY RACE is NEXT weekend! Sign up sign up sign up... wahooo. In honor of the Day of the Dead race (and because I believe it was around this time last year when I showed up to a run spazing out that I couldn't find where the non-zombie dead humans were going in the MATLAB model for the class I was TAing), the earliest mathematical model for surviving a zombie attack was derived in January, 2009 by graduate students at Carleton University. Dang it! If only I had been 21 months earlier, I could have my PhD by now and be working as a consultant for the Canadian government in undead emergency planning (ok, I'm being sarcastic, I know their real research was in infectious disease modeling, and they had a little fun)! And, just for the heck of it, zombie triathletes?