In case you are spectating or running Grandma's and looking for me, I'll be in green and black, with a touch of my signature pink (of course!) in the shorts and on my head! There is also runner tracking available until Friday night at 9:00 p.m. (though in the past I think the text/email tracking …
Category: BQ
Good Fortune
Do you believe in fortunes? You know, the ones that you get from Chinese fortune cookies at the end of a meal? I wouldn't say that I believe in them, per se. Like I don't think that they are the be all and end all. I don't think that what is written in them is …
Must Run & Register Faster! (New Boston Standards)
BAA announced the new standards today. (Takes forever to load; thanks to Maria for cutting/pasting it into Word for me!) Looks like I am still technically good for 2012 time-wise, but they are doing a rolling registration process, which I believe would screw me since fasties will register in the earlier days. So, looks like …
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Boston 2012 Qualifying Info
I'm a planner. Even though Boston 2012 is 16 months away, I want to know NOW if I already qualified with my Twin Cities time, or if I have to do something faster this year still. So I emailed the BAA and asked them what the deal was. The response that I got back, via …
Spoke too soon?!
So did I speak too soon in assuming I qualified for Boston for 2012?? In light of the lightning fast registration for Boston 2011 yesterday (filling 26,000 slots in 8 hours, versus in 2 months last year and something like 5 months the previous year), there is talk that BAA will be changing something for …
Twin Cities 2010 Race Report
This was, by far, my best marathon to date. In terms of time (PR by 7:08). But, more importantly, in terms of fun and feel-good. This was my 5th marathon. I really didn't know what to expect in terms of a finishing time for this marathon. For marathons 1 - 4, I felt that I …
