After getting pummeled the last four days at work, have not felt like running at any time -- morning, midnight, didn't matter. Woke up in the morning and felt just as tired as when I went to bed the night before. Maybe I can get some good runs in during my off week because...
After 30 minutes of frustration with the BAA website, and clicking "submit" infinitely, it seemed, it finally accepted my registration for the 2011 Boston Marathon this morning. And put two charges on my debit card statement; let's hope they're not gonna charge me $260 to run. Fortunately, dcv2002 on the RWOL Boston forum posted a link that got me around the "submit" endless loop, and I got in on the first try through that link. Thanks, man.
But now I'm committed. Which seems to be what it takes to get me off my, uh, couch and going. I have exactly six months to get ready. (Also have to get plane tickets and a place to stay, which I'll hold off on until I find out that my entry has been officially accepted).
Need to go to NLR/Bryant today to take care of some things, mostly financial, but hope to get a run in tonight after I return.
Update, two days later: I did get in that run after I got back from Centark, 4.5 around the Ben Geren loop at sub-9:30 pace. I was sore afterward, but that's what I'm doing for the next six weeks, getting the legs back in the swing.
Turns out that Boston filled up in EIGHT HOURS. Filled up. Last year, nine weeks. Year before, five months. Year before, it didn't fill at all. EIGHT HOURS. Many many people POd/shocked that they're shut out. If you paid any attention at all since last November, you saw this coming. People got shut out last year and freaked; they weren't gonna get caught again. I didn't get shut out, but I knew going to Memphis that I couldn't get in for 2010. Once I qualified, I was NOT going to get shut out for 2011.
Had a nice pre-birthday dinner with the folks while I was in Centark. | 