Oh, Andy...
It's not the end of the world if you don't end up doing the Dublin Marathon. Everyone here training for the Marine Corps Marathon is worried about the cutoff - you have to be at mile 21 by some certain time that corresponds to a 14 min/mile pace. One friend who has never done a marathon is seriously panicking, and even when I assure her that I even made it to the 21 mile mark in FLM in well under that pace (do you consider 13:30 well under that pace? well, i do!) so certainly she can. Hmm, and they call it the "People's Marathon." Well, not the "Slow People's Marathon."
Oops, off the subject. Not sure where that came from.
I'm envious that you can enter the FLM so easily (well, the lottery anyway) but with my currently unemployed status, I'm not sure I will be able to afford the $500 that it costs for an overseas entry plus three nights of a hotel. (Unfortunately, you have to book into an expensive hotel to get an entry. Sheesh. I'd rather put my chances in the lottery!) So we'll see if I do make it to London next April, though I'm absolutely determined.
I'll stop blathering now. Unfortunately, over here there aren't any decent fundraising sites like JustGiving. Ah well. And, though I hate to mention it, I'd love a donation.
I'm kind of stuck right now.
pam
