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I gave myself a Christmas present yesterday.
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Registration in the 2012 Grand Rapids Marathon. It's a smaller race(3,000 in the marathon and 2,500 in the half marathon) located on the West side of Michigan. The race director has the world record for finishing 7 marathons on all seven continents -- 25 days, 18 hours, 10 minutes. He's also run 229 races of at least the marathon distance! Incredible. You can read about it HERE. I can't wait to meet him.
This looks like an awesome marathon. Small enough to PR(hopefully), large enough to have a little crowd support(which I don't really need). This one starts and ends in downtown Grand Rapids. It will be the first marathon I have done that I need to sleep in a hotel the night before the race. The course also looks incredible:
300 days and counting!!!
Have a great day and....Keep Running!!!!
Congrats on registering for number 3! I was just looking at registering for my 2012 races this morning :)
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ReplyDeleteCongrats on #3. I got to run in the daylight to today. BOY it sure was nice to see where I was going and the sun even popped out. Tomorrow back to darkness.
ReplyDeleteMe too Penny. Dark tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteHello! I recently stumbled upon your blog.
ReplyDeleteI have run Grand Rapids 3 times (full twice and half once). It's a great marathon! The race director is right there on the finish line hugging everyone who crosses!
The Holiday Inn Express on Pearl St. is walking distance; it's nice and very close.
Take the race director a beer from a local brewery!