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August 16, 2004

Sign Me Up

Sweet! I like the new look. I think that the image at the top compliments the sentiment conveyed by the title. The title comes from a line from a Patty Griffin song, Mad Mission, from Living with Ghosts, that I designated my marathon song (I know … don’t laugh) before Motorola in ’03. The chorus, I thought, was just about perfect for marathoning:

It’s a mad mission
Under difficult conditions
Not everybody makes it
To the loving cup
It’s a mad mission
But I got the ambition
Mad mad mission
Sign me up.

And I signed up yesterday, by the way. They were offering an “early bird special” to get in for $65 that expired at the end of yesterday. And I qualified for a sub-seeded number, too, which was kinda cool. Now I can line up with all the fasties and spaz out for the first mile.

I don’t have a designated marathon song for this year yet, but on the way home tonight I was listening to a Bob Schneider song that I had thought was perfect a few weeks ago when I first started my base building and my 7-month training plan:

I’ve got a mountain to climb before I get over this hill
I’ve got the world to unwind ‘fore I ever sit still
I’ve got a hard row to hoe before my seed is sown
I’ve got a long way to get before I get back home.

- from Long Way to Get on I'm Good Now

Posted by jenandmats at August 16, 2004 11:22 PM

Comments

I had been meaning to ask you if your title came from the Patty song. Very cool. I'm enjoying following your progress!

Posted by: becky at August 17, 2004 8:18 PM