Filling gaps in your summer racing and training schedule? These opportunities are a few short weeks away (June 10-11).

• Flag City Multisport Celebration, June 10 (Saturday), Riverbend Recreation Area, Findlay, Ohio.

• Mackinac Island Lilac Festival 10K, June 10, Mackinac Island, Michigan, 1-800-4LILACS

• Flirt With Dirt 5K, 10K Trail Run, June 10, Lakeshore Park, Novi, Michigan

• Komen Detroit Race for the Cure, 5K, June 10, Detroit.

• Ann Arbor Bikesport Triathlon, Duathlon, June 11 (Sunday), Half Moon Lake, Pinckney, Michigan (8 a.m.)

• Racing for Recovery Half-Ironnman and Sprint Triathlon, June 11, Olander Park, Sylvania, Ohio. Half-distance: 1.2-mile swim, 56-mile bike, 13.1-mile run. Sprint distance: .6-mile swim, 14-mile bike, 3.1 mile run.

Also

The Glass City Marathon is 54 days away.

Run with this

• "I always loved running - it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs."

Jesse Owens

First Published February 6, 2006, 6:05 p.m.