Image by Marcos Vasconcelos Photography via Flickr

• May 2nd is Opening Day
  • Kennywood Opens for the Season
  • Kayak Pittsburgh
    • Saturday Night is also a Fireworks Paddle
  • Pittsburgh Riverhounds Home Opener against Maryland
• Fan Boys and Last Weekend for the Vader Project at Warhol
  • Comedy about friends who travel to Skywalker ranch to steal the script for the phantom menace
  • Last weekend to see the exhibit of 100 Darth Vader helmets designed by artists
• Marathon Sunday – events for non runners
  • Neighborhood Parties along the race route
    • Highland Park at Enrico’s
    • Bloomfield at Baum and Liberty
    • Oakland at Schenley Plaza
• Greek for a Week
  • St. Nicholas Greek Food Festival Starts May 3, runs until Friday
• Cinco De Mayo at Mad Mex
  • Breakfast Mex
  • Drink Specials
  • Enter to win Mad Mex for a year
• Climb for Hope Benefit
  • Thur. May 7, 6pm at Doublewide Grill
  • Climb for Hope PGH is a team of 5 Pittsburghers who climb crazy mountains to raise money for breast cancer research
  • In June – the team is headed to climb the tallest mountain in Iceland

Some more marathon related reading…

• The man who tweeted the London Marathon (as he ran) (thenextweb.com)
• Website of the Day: Daily Mile (geeksugar.com)