The need to run them ALL

I think in the beginning I had this overwhelming need to run all the races I could. My first race was a small museum funding raiser in October of 2011. I remember training for it as hard as I have been training for this series of half marathons I have been working on. It just so happened that Energizer was trying to get people to sign up for their 11-11-11 11k and they were giving away entries for free. All of a sudden I went from 3 miles to just under 7 and haven't looked back. Since then I have run 50 or so races and who knows how many more if you include virtuals. I am finally thinking this has got to stop. How many races are too many races? And it doesn't look like 2014 is going to be any slower, so far this is my schedule for the year:

Jan 18, ABB 5k - Downtown H-town (1st in double) w/ Clairissa
Jan 19, Aramco Half - Downtown H-town (2nd in double)

Feb 1, MRTT 10k
Feb 2, Brazos Bend Keep on Truckin' Trail Race, Half Marathon, Needville Tx
Feb 16, Run the Line Half marathon Texarakana TX and AR
Feb 22, Buffalo Wallow 6k, Spotts Park Houston

Mar 8, Bayou City Classic, Downtown Houston
Mar 15 & 16 Seabrook Marathon Weekend Pelican Challenge
Mar 29, Bellaire Trolley Run 5k, Bellaire City Hall

April 12 Blue Bell 10k, Brenham TX

May 31, Texas City Run Fest 10k, Texas City Dyke

July 4, Baytown Heatwave 5 miler, Baytown Tx


and that's just the first half of the year.