nyc marathon ‘09 info
I came across a thread on a running forum. The title was “what you wish you knew when you did your 1st marathon.” I love this response and was fortunate enough to have read it before I ran my first last year:
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RE: What you wish you knew when you did your 1st marathon
I guess the best advice I got was at the start line of the Dublin City Marathon, my first one.
I was standing next to an older gent and I was nervous as hell. I asked how many marathons he had done this Marathon.
He replied, “24″
Really, “You just missed one.”
“Yes the first one.”
“Wow” I was amazed.
He asked, “How many for you?”
Nervously I replied, “This is my first.”
He said these words, “I wish I was you.”
I tell every person that is doing their first one that story. Savor the run as much as you can, because there is that moment at 20 miles or 22 where you are in new territory where your body has not been.
It is cool.
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Yes it is.
So two more easy runs and then the longest of the long. My bib # is 39357. I’m starting in Wave 2 which will go at 10:00. Unfortunately, I’m in the green start which means that I’m on the lower level of the Verrazano. The forecast calls for R Kelly-type showers.
Athlete Alert
Just in case you’d like to track me sucking wind in almost real time, Athlete Alert is live (although it’s unbelievably slow right now). You can enter an email address and “splits will be reported at every 5K mark along the course as well as the half-marathon mark (13.1 miles/21.1K), and the finish. This service is free and is a great way to keep track of the pace and location of your favorite runners. To sign up you will simply need the names of the runners you wish to track and, of course, the e-mail address to which the splits should be delivered.”
You can also receive these alerts as text messages to your cell phone. To do this, you would use your 10 digit phone number followed by the domain name that corresponds to your cell phone provider. Use this as your guide:
AT&T / Cingular: 10 digits@txt.att.net or 10 digits@cingularME.com
T-Mobile: 10 digits@tmomail.net
Verizon: 10 digits@vtext.com
Sprint: 10 digits@messaging.sprintpcs.com
I will be live-blogging from Fort Wadsworth, so check here early and often on Sunday morn.
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