It was around 9pm when I 'skyping' with my cousin Raj. We were just catching up on what's been happening and all that good stuff. Then he asked me if I had been running and I told him I am getting into a 3 day running and 2 day work out regiment, followed by a long run on the weekends (which I missed this weekend). Anyways I told him I had been running 3 miles before class on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. And then we go to talking about the NYC Marathon.
Just to fill everyone in:
Raj ran the NYC Marathon last year and I have been running long runs with him since last summer, since he got me motivated to do so. So after liking the idea of running for extended distances/periods of time for no reason I decided that I would enter to run the marathon with him this year. He recruited 5 others to at least enter the lottery, no one made it, I think most of them were relieved. Feeling a little dejected we all moved on. Then about a month and a half ago one of Raj's acquaintances mentioned that he has some connections and that he might be able to get me in, we took it with a grain of salt but decided to give it a shot.
Lo and behold he checked the entrant database while we were 'skyping' and I was a confirmed entrant!! Excited? DUH! Scared even more? YES!! We couldn't believe it, first that the guy was able to pull through, and then the fact that I had just signed myself up to run 26.2 miles in NY.
Some of you maybe asking yourselves, "How are you going to do this when you are on St. Maarten?" Well I will be flying back for three days, leaving Friday midday (November 2nd at 3:30pm) and getting back Monday (November 5th at 3pm). The race is on Sunday, and I do have class Monday but I guess I'll unfortunately be missing class, to take advantage of this opportunity (if you can call it that, although I think some of you may disagree).
The good thing is I have that following Friday off so I can catch up if need be, and it is actually around the best time possible because I will have had a block exam the week before the race.
I don't really know how I feel right now, a bit of everything I guess, but more excited than anything else. I mean running a marathon is the culmination of a runner's dream. (And yes I do consider myself a runner, and probably even more so after I run the marathon)
Well the spaghetti is almost done and I am starved!
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