It Could Happen To You

 Thankfully, I am all signed up for the Santa Barbara International Marathon.  In my excitement, I started to sift around Al Gore’s invention for other alluring 26.2 mile events.  Just curious.  Just because…..um….look a plane!

Everything is full.  I have not run a marathon in 11 years.  [Clearing throat] Back then, one could kind of decide a couple nights before over beer bets to go belly up at the starting line or was that finish line?  Now people have to plan like a year in advance to run an event, qualify or enter a lottery!  Lucky Lotto Number…you sir get to rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrun 26.2 miles!  Please bring your own socks, shoes, shirt, gels, and vaseline.  We’ll give you water every now and then and snap a photo of you at the finish.  Please train for this event.  We will have medical people everywhere, but we’d prefer they just drank coffee.

Did you know that ONLY 5,000 people get to run the SBIM?!  That is like one more than 4,999.  Did you know that everybody that I know is already signed up?

“But I was going to wait until Labor Day and sign my husband up then as you know a nice “labor” day gift.”

“But I was going to sign up the day after Thanksgiving when I am sure that I’ll do anything to take away the pain of too much turkey.”

“But….but….but……”

Watch your but(t) or else we will all be watching it on the sidelines!  Sign up.

~ by drea on July 8, 2009.