TotR: Creating Race Schedule

Another Tuesday, another Tuesday on the Run hosted by our favorites: 
Erika from MCM Mama Runs, Marcia from Marcia's Healthy Slice and Patty from No-Guilt Life.This week's topic is How you create your schedule. 
I feel like I'm pretty simple when it comes to races. 

• I have a standard set of rundisney and local races I like to do that get put on the calendar
• I keep a list of others I want to try and fit those in the best I can 
• I have decided I want to travel at least once a year to do a new race in a new place (2015-NYCM, 2016-stayed more local and did Carlsbad and RnRSD, 2017-RnRNOLA)
• Looking at Year, my local races are mostly in the spring with a large dearth in the summer and then more races in the fall. often November is nicknamed #RaceNovember for me. 

I ran a lot of races last year but found it helped with making sure I got in my long runs on weekends when I was stressed to the brim with schoolwork 
Coming up I have 3 of my favorite local races in a week:

• Great Race Old Agoura 10k
• Carlsbad 20k the next day
• Santa Anita Derby 5k the next Saturday

They are all affordable, come with great swag and are a good time! 
Never one to slack, check out my Race Recap page where I put my recaps as well as my upcoming races ​

How about you? How do you decide what to run?