Saturday - LIVE from Kiawah!
Preparations for Kiawah are complete, right down to the bodacious Captain America sweat pants. It’s now all over but the crying (and freakish misery). Let’s face it. I can’t promise Boston, but I can promise suffering.
Unfortunately, the Kiawah Marathon does not offer online runner tracking. No problem. This site will feature REAL-TIME UPDATES (alas, just for me) from the course on race-day, Saturday the 9th. Starting just before the opening pistol (8:00am), you can track my progress all the way to the finish; complete with SPLITS, PACE, PROJECTED FINISHING TIME and possible snide comments from guest blogger and good friend Jason.
Right after the finish, I’ll hobble over to a PC and offer an immediate post-race update, unless I am incapacitated in the medical tent.
See you on Saturday!
December 7th, 2006 at 6:45 pm
This is your guest blogger Jason. I’ll be providing updates and the promised snide comments, movie quotes and Buffy/Veronica Mars references. I promise to keep it clean and will try to be funny.
I will say that, as an avid golfer, I’m happy to see there will be a couple of passes by the Ocean Course (site of a future PGA Championship).
Be the ball! NANANANANANANA
December 7th, 2006 at 6:48 pm
Jason,
You are the man. I owe you for all the blogging help on Saturday. Readers, you are in good hands!
- Dean
December 7th, 2006 at 10:51 pm
And I was just wondering what I would do Saturday morning… Thanks for the (free) “entertainment”! I’ll definitely check it out. Good luck, dude!
December 8th, 2006 at 7:35 am
Good luck Saturday morning…This is no easy undertaking as you well know. Best of luck and keep the mental attitude positive and you will make it. Stay calm and watch your splits and trust in the training you have put in. Your body will respond.
Best of luck the Pacemakers will be with you….
December 8th, 2006 at 8:46 am
Canyon says: Good luck in your big race!
Amy says: Your dedication is astouding and admirable…I hope you excel beyond your expections!
Brad says: “Last, but by no means least, courage - moral courage, the courage of one’s convictions, the courage to see things through… It’s the age-old struggle - the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other.” -Douglas MacArthur
Aly says: UNCLE DEAN? Again? But where him at?
December 8th, 2006 at 11:20 am
Nice website Dean. Seems marathoning is good for the mind and soul as well as the body.
The Solemates are pulling for you … Kiawah is much flatter than Grandfather Mountain.
December 8th, 2006 at 2:36 pm
I’ll be thinking about you Saturday morning… Sorta, kinda told H that I’d be out there with him freezing my ba.. uh-um… butt off but should be back home in time to watch your progresss for the last 1/2.
Best of luck…. I KNOW you can do it!
December 8th, 2006 at 3:59 pm
Hey Dean! Former Solemate here—Good Luck on Saturday! The best marathon advice I got was, of course, AFTER the marathon, but I’m willing to share it with you BEFORE your marathon.—I hear that those little “Monsters” that enter your head while your running that say “Slow down! Walk a minute!….” (Mine are actually MUCH meaner and rated R)BUT anyway, they only last 4 minutes. 4 minutes, Dean! That’s a half mile. So push through them and you’re ga-run-teed not to hit….and stay…at the dreaded wall.
December 8th, 2006 at 4:08 pm
Hey Dean,
Great seeing you at lunchtime and best of luch at Kiawah! Fantastic site, too….I want to talk blog for standout. Call me next week.