Oh The Insanity, Day 1

No, this is not a journal of how I’m losing my mind while on “unpaid sabbatical”; this is worse. After much deliberation (not really), we did it. We’ve signed up for the Tokyo Marathon. Many thanks to our running buddies from our first and only half-marathon who have given us the confidence, however misplaced it might be, to run such a distance.

We’ve registered for the event, but it will be on a lottery basis. Apparently the city can only handle 25,000 runners and already have too many registered. For those of you that know my luck with lotteries, here’s a great example. My friend Andrea and I were supposed to both run the Mount Marathon (a very strenuous 3 mile mountain race) this past spring, but she got in on the lottery and I did not. Patrick has already started contemplating the appropriate consolation prize required if he gets to run and I don’t!

We’ll keep you posted on the process. Today is day 1 of our training and we’ve survived. Only 183 days to go. Wish us luck!