Here it is May 3 and Race Day is just a month away, well and a couple of days. Are you ready? We are. New things are in store for the 2011 event. The biggest is the addition of the 10K race, which will follow the last six miles of the marathon course. Which also means the last few gnarly hills of the marathon. But that's a good thing. Also new for this year is available camping at the Fairgrounds for the weekend or just the Saturday night before Race Day. Camping at the Fairground is a totally logical thought. Just a 15 minute walk from the race weekend busy downtown Friday Harbor, with great places to eat and, perhaps, have a beer. On Race morning, all you need to do is crawl out of one's sleeping bag and you will be a few hundred feet from the starting line. How cool is that? Pretty. If you haven't registered for this years races, you but do so. Registrations this year are being handle by Active.com. No race day entries. Visit REGISTRATION now! Keep checking this web site for all the haps of the San Juan Island Race Events!

New for this year, camping (either by tent or RV) will be available at the San Juan County Fairgrounds, which happens to be the place where it all happens on Race Day. For more information please visit http://www.co.san-juan.wa.us/Parks/sanjuan.aspx

Not only are the Kings San Juan Island Marathon and Half Marathon open for registration, but event directors have added a 10 kilometer race to this year's event. All events take place on Sunday, June 5 beginning at 8:30 a.m. Why a 10K? "My brother in Portland is working with a group of people looking to do this distance race. He asked if Clark and I would add it and we thought why not," said Paul Hopkins, event co-director. "The 10K is often the "gateway drug" to longer distances, like the half and the full. We figure people will want to come back for additional challenges." The course will most likely follow the final portion of the full marathon, which includes the Pear Point/Turn Point loop. Race Directors will finalize and publish the exact course in the next couple of months. The 10K registration will include a t-shirt, aid stations, porta-potties and post race nourishment. San Juan Island Fitness, a major sponsor of the event, will provide written training programs for those interested in any of the events. Click HERE to register.