I'm in.... or Bob-o has drank the Orange Kool-Aid

After some nervous moments... fear of double registering...not knowing if my payment went through when the server went down..I have checked and I am in the 2008 edition of the ING Hartford Marathon. That's right Bob-o will be joining the Cranky and the Speedy one on the start line October 11. If my calves hold up I'm confident of a PR I just have to make sure I don't break the 10 commandments of marathon running, do anything stupid,get shot....

Well that's the exciting news, I've done one 20+ mile run in the past 2 months and a bunch of runs between 10-15 miles so I'm confident I have the base...right now the hard part is resisting the urge to go out and do an 18 mile run just to prove I still have the fitness. The desire to overload on distance is high but the need is to chill out run some shorter runs this weekend and early next week and coast into Hartford. The last month may have sucked out loud for my run prep but the previous 4 months were solid pounding so by that "fuzzy" math success is assured..right?

Cranky and Claire have been sending perodic updates via email. Cranky's strategically mapping out the course, making mental notes, sending shady henchmen to scope out the course and give him detailed photo analysis....in essence he will have every inch right down to the dude begging for liquor money infront of the state capital commited to memory.

As for me I'm just going to let whatever happens happen granted I have already looked at the map and realize that I should try to finish in under 4 hours because traffic's going to be a bitch...

So recap...
Bob-o's in
Cranky's stratgizing
Claire's getting pissed off
Angry..contiuing to get jack and laugh at our scrawny asses...

Also since ING is running it does this mean if I win my age group I get a free Orange Savings account....

Wondering if this was the dumbest move he's ever made...
R.D.