Ha. I’m training for the Dissertation marathon. Don’t think I’ll BQ at that one!

@lifestudent: Yeah, one of my best friends said she’ll run Kauai if she ever runs a marathon. I love your thinking, for sure! “Vacation + Marathon”! That’s a classic!

I bet DC will be fun! Rob and I did some running around the Mall when we were there in September. We did about 4 miles in 75 minutes because we were stopping to take pictures/have pictures taken at all the monuments. Oh, and we did stair repeats at the Jefferson Memorial. :)

Ideally? Honolulu or Cabo San Lucas. Vacation + Marathon = Months Of Training Worthwhile. But it looks like my buddies are doing DC in 09 ;)

@nevardeath: I thought you’d like the idea of Tulsa. I’m pretty sure I’ll do at least the relay somewhat soon. Maybe you’ll want to take part?? Doesn’t the Great Wall one sound awesome?! I think I’d need to take a year off of life just to train for it though. :)

You go for that dream! You’ll have to tell me about it on the phone sometime soon. *hint, hint* :) Sounds exciting.

@topher: Oooh, thanks for the PR tip! I think you read all of my Berlin marathon posts… thinking about NOT having that awesome crowd support makes me a little nervous, but it will definitely make the Olathe marathon more challenging. I think one of the reasons Berlin felt so easy was the crowd support…

Also glad to hear that St. George is recommended, and thanks for the diss encouragement!

@beth: Really?! Wow. You’ll have to ask him/her about it for me! Get all the hairy details.

There’s a teacher at the school who did the China Great Wall marathon! I would love to see that one!

No marathons for me until I can walk down the street alone….

Rumor has it that Olathe is a good one to PR at, as well, b/c it’s flat. Small crowd support at the end, but a lot of it runs through “farmland” so not much in terms of people along the way. That might be nice, though.

Several of my wife’s siblings ran St. George and really liked it.

Good luck with the diss’.

I think the Tulsa marathon is your best bet :Dthe great wall of china sounds AWESOME though.

My current dream is the iPhone game I’m working on, it’ll be awesome, but I don’t want the idea out on the web in case someone else sees it and beats me to it :)