Happy Marathon Eve!

It's about 10:30 p.m. and I should be in bed, but forgot I had to update a few folks on location-specific ETA's for the marathon tomorrow. I leave the Start Line between 10:30 and 10:40, depending on the crowd at the start of the race -- that pansy, Lance Armstrong, needs a headstart with the rest of the so-called 'Elite' runners, so they'll be leaving at 10:00 a.m.

I'm hoping for a PR of under 3:52:00, so, I need to maintain well under a 9 min/mile pace for the first half of marathon, as I inevitably get slower throughout the race (if you track my 'split' times, this is painfully obvious!) So, ETAs are as follows:

Speen St. and Rte. 135: Between 11:30 and 11:50

Downtown Natick: Between 11:50 and 12:10

Wellesley College (yeah, the girls go wild for us wheezy, balding, late thirtysomething fellas!): Between 12:10 and 12:25

Downtown Wellesley: Between 12:15 and 12:35

Wellesley Lower Falls: Between 12:40 and 12:55

Rte 16 and Rte 30 (Firehouse, near Deploy/Kronos): Between 12:50 and 1:10

Heartbreak Hill: God only knows! seriously, about 1:20 - 1:40

Pine Street Team cheering section (1043-45 Beacon St): About 2:00-2:15

Wish me luck!! The way the Bruins and Sox have been rallying all weekend, I'm getting excited!

Thanks again, Paul