One 5K endures post-Ike. A second 5K is born of Ike. A third 5K suddenly fades to black.

Event updates for the Houston-area running community:

• Hurricane Ike destroyed Maribelles Bar in Seabrook last September. August is an especially thin month on the running calendar in these parts, so it was nice to see that the 5K previously staged out of Maribelles will go on. Renamed to reflect a new host bar, the Outriggers 5K will run on August 1. Hopefully participants will be treated to another bounty of pizza and beer similar to the one I saw last year. Link to registration and more information on this race can be found at the On The Run site.
• Organizers of the Galveston Rebirth Race will use the one year anniversary of Ike's landfall as an occasion to run on the island.
  
• I was surprised to discover that there will be no Fired Up 5K this year. The Sugar Land Fire Deaprtment and First Colony Community Association had been jointly hosting this Labor Day race benefitting the Muscular Dystrophy Association. According to the fire department, the FCCA discontinued its sponsorship. It certainly could not have been due to a lack of interest, as the event appeared to progressively draw bigger crowds each year I ran it. One of the memories I have of that last Fired Up 5K in 2008 was simply being able to run it after being worried about Hurricane Gustav in the preceding days; Gustav was striking Louisiana instead.
  

Just one more shameless plug: These updates have been transferred to my Houston Running Calendar blog.