I suppose I could ‘know’ about races but only book them the day before. It would save having to pull out because of injury or unavoidable family commitments.
Planned to run about 600m uphill over 10K from Gressoney-la-Trinite to the small chapel at Santa Ana above Staffal in the Italian alps. Failed! A huge avalanche blocked the intended path a few days ago. My consolation was to walk about 3.7k downhill on snowshoes - however, Strava tells me I only did 37m uphill gain in over 500m DOWNHILL.