Two days from now, I will compete in my seventh full marathon (bib 1550 in the Green Bay Marathon, for those interested). Once again, this race is to support a co-worker in his first marathon. He is fairly talented and only the limits on his training schedule will allow me to be the rabbit. Even so, we are targeting a sub-4 hour race, which puts me quite close to PR pace.
With a marathon less than 48 hours out, it's good to have priorities set and begin to focus on important final details.
Which is why I spent last night looking for two very specific songs on the Internet and sending E-mails to a local race director.
The music has nothing to do with the race. They are songs I need for an upcoming sermon series at church. In case you've never tried, it can be VERY challenging to locate out-of-production Christian rock from the mid-1980s. Persistence paid off and I managed to get everything together and once again claim the world is mine and I can do with it as I please.
Obviously, the correspondence with the race director ALSO had nothing to do with the marathon. She directs several local races, but not this one. The extra time I had in the evening (since today is a rest day) seemed a good time to consider race opportunities for my kids, who are now 30 months and four and a half. After getting the answers to all my wife's questions, we are ready to register both kids for the Oshkosh Area Triathlon Kids Triathlon.
Is it at all wrong that the impending 26.2 mile venture is less exciting than the PROSPECT of registering my kids for their first triathlon? Well, much as Bolder always points out it's "all about the bike," it's all about the kids, for me. It was great helping three young men complete their first race, last year. And it was great watching a young lady break all kinds of personal records on Wednesday.
But the opportunity to sign both my kids up for their first triathlon is a huge thrill. And the funny thing is that I won't be able to even mention it to them for some time. Once we mention it, they'll want to do the race RIGHT NOW. And once they learn that there are kids' races all summer, I'll probably have to cut back on my own race schedule to be able to afford their races.
And by way of the shameless promotion of another, please consider any of the races put on by Midwest Sports Events. They put on some awesome races, bend over backwards to help out charitable groups, and truly deserve recognition for all they do. Anyone with room in their race calendar and time in the Wisconsin area should check out the race schedule at Midwest Sports Events.
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