New plans ! New plans ! New plans !
K is here for Mom Day-M B’day doubleheader and this week (May 12-18) she asked if I would like to train for and then run the Midnight Sun Marathon in Baffin Island, the Arctic Circle, say, in July 2014. You kidding me? Of course, I said, I’m all in, the idea of going to my place of childhood dreams (the far north … http://amzn.to/NmujdH) with my daughter K for a week in July left me giddy with delight.
Then, I came upon this bit of news on the Web:
“Event no longer held due to the closing of the mine.”
Which brought us to our second thought (after its $4,000-plus per-person replacement, the Northwest Passage Marathon, was rejected as too damn expensive), the Utah Valley Marathon next June !
So instead of aiming for Boston 2014, it looks like I will delay my Steamtown qualification (God willing) to Boston 2015, with the view that there will be only one race (with K!) in ’14 (a favorite number, Davey Keon’s number and M’s birthdate) and that will be in the Valley (cascading waterfalls, Provo River and Utah Lake, it says on the website)!
Next: Food For Thought
