Looks like I really am running a marathon this year, barring disaster. I had previously mentioned that I was going to enter the City of Oaks Marathon here in Raleigh and that was my intention. But… in the back of my head I kept thinking about the Marine Corps Marathon. However, I really thought the MCM was in March or April for some reason (I actually know why: I was getting it confused with the Raleigh Rocks Half Marathon in March). So I discounted it because the timing didn’t work out right. I certainly wasn’t ready this March and I don’t relish training through the winter for a marathon in the Spring.
But I still thought about the Marine Corps Marathon. So, on Wednesday I decided to take a look at the site for it just to see when it was. Oh! It’s on October 25th! That’s only a week before the marathon I was considering. It seems fate was taking an interest as well. Registration for it opened on, yes, Wednesday April 1st. That was a bit too perfect for me so I registered immediately after checking with Cat about her triathlon schedule.
So, I’m running the 2009 Marine Corps Marathon! I couldn’t imagine a better first marathon. We love DC and running through all of the landmarks should be fantastic. I like to think that my dad had a hand in this given the fateful nature of things. He was a marine and, frankly, it was sort of a defining characteristic. My mom bought a memorial brick for him at the National Museum of the Marine Corps south of DC so we’ll almost certainly stop off there afterwards to find him.
I couldn’t be more excited. Or scared, frankly 
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Go, you! That certainly does sound like a wonderful way to start.