Lucky # 8325

Bib numbers for Boston have been announced and I will be wearing # 8325. The way I understand it, this means I will be lining up in the first wave (10:00am start), 8th corral (so don't expect to see me on TV). They seed you based upon your qualifying time so that means there were over 8300 runners with faster qualifying times than me. Very humbling, not that I have any illusions about being a fast runner but wow, when it comes to Boston qualifiers, I'm pretty gosh darn average. But that's exactly what makes the Boston Marathon so great, it is the only marathon in the country (other than the Olympic Trials) where you have to qualify to race. As a result, it brings out all the fast runners. It is the Super Bowl of marathoning. It is a priviledge just to toe the line. Running a respectable race will be gravy.