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A Perfect Weekend

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The Philly HM was only part of my fun weekend.  On Friday night, I hit up the expo in order to avoid the mad rush on Saturday.  I also met Matt for happy hour and restrained myself by only having 2 1/2 beers.  I made up for that yesterday.

Amanda and I happened to be at the expo at the same time, so we chatted for a bit.  Amanda kicked ass yesterday in the half!

I know I complain a lot about shirt sizing but this is ridiculous.  Normally, the Philly Marathon has great long-sleeve tech shirts.  Witty sayings and the fit is perfect.  I always look forward to adding another Philly Marathon shirt to my rotation.  Not this year.  The grey shirt is last year’s shirt (size small, Endurafit) and the black is this year’s shirt (also size small, also Endurafit).  Not cool Philly, not cool.

On Saturday, I headed back to the expo for a blogger meet-up.  It’s so great to finally meet some of these ladies in-person!  From left to right:  me, Abby, Amanda, Gina, Kari, Katie, Megan, and Gene.

As I was leaving I spotted Bart Yasso at the Runner’s World table and no one was talking to him so I ran over for a quick picture.  I love Bart!  And I was bummed that I didn’t have my copy of My Life on the Run for him to sign 🙁

That’s it folks!  Race recap will be up tomorrow.

I need to give a huge shout out to Alyssa and Kara for running 50 miles on Saturday (or, in Alyssa’s case, 50+ miles).  You ladies are so inspiring and I hope to follow in your footsteps soon!

I’m Running The Boston Marathon (it's official)!

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OK, OK…I know…enough of the Boston talk!  But I promise this post won’t be whiny.

It has been a long 2 1/2 weeks since this happened…


Thanks Amanda for the video!  Pay no attention to my bad form.

But I finally received my acceptance email from the B.A.A. on Thursday (at 2:11pm, not that I was waiting or anything).  What did it take?

6:  emails to the B.A.A. from me
4:  phone calls to the B.A.A.
1:  fax to the B.A.A.
1:  email from the LVM race director* to the B.A.A.
1:  email from the LVM race timer to the  B.A.A.
*this email came from Gerry Yasso (yes, Bart’s brother).  Bart designed the LVM course.  I love Bart Yasso and now his brother is pretty awesome as well.   

I cannot believe it’s finally official!

AND, I cannot believe how lucky I am.

  • After the NJ Marathon (May 2011), I knew I could BQ.  I was lucky enough to get another shot at BQing and found a marathon within driving distance the day before Boston 2012 registration opened.  Talk about down to the wire.
  • There was hurricane Irene, then more flooding, and 90% humidity leading up to the race.  I was lucky enough to get a cool and overcast day with little to no mud.
  • Then the unthinkable happened, Boston registration was still open on September 19th and I was lucky enough to register.

Little did I know that I was about to get even luckier…

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One second slower (say I had a violent sneeze during Mile 24) and I would not be running the Boston Marathon.

This is a dream come true!  There are no words to express how happy I am right now!

Boston will be my 10th marathon.  What a way to ring in the double digits!

PS – My running twin, Cindi, is going to kick ass at the Twin Cities Marathon on Sunday.  Stop by and wish her the race of a lifetime!