Speaking as someone who loves “True Life,” that would be the most boring episode ever. “Uh, so I’m thinking about buying a skort right now…”
I am doing the 9+1 guaranteed entry program for the 2012 NYC Marathon (read about it here). I don’t think it will be too hard as I did 13 races last year, 7 of which were NYRR. I plan to get strategic and knock off the majority of my races before it gets too hot, then take care of my volunteer credit over the summer.
Between last weekend and this weekend I will have knocked 2 off. Otherwise I’m fairly sure I’m doing the Al Gordon 4-miler and Coogan’s (SO. FUN.), and I would like to do the Fifth Avenue Mile again even though it’s kind of pricey per minute. The Dash’n’Splash in July also has me intrigued.
I don’t know whether I will actually be psychologically prepared to run a marathon in 2012, but it is a year and a half away, so.
If you read this far, I just learned why the NYRR’s all-women’s 10K in June is called the Mini 10K from Kathrine Switzer’s autobiography. Local race organizers back in the ’70s originally wanted to stage an all-women’s marathon in Central Park, but women in the sports world (like Switzer) knew there weren’t that many female marathoners, and the popular conception still held that women couldn’t run marathons without having their uteruses (uteri?) fall out. So originally it was called a “Mini Marathon” — one lap of Central Park (6 miles), instead of four and change. Now it’s called a Mini 10K which makes no sense because it is a legitimate 10K, it’s not .62 miles or some nonsense. Micro-history lesson over.
