The Final Score

One person once told me there's two type of runners: those who run marathons, and those who talk about one day running a marathon. For the past decade I've fallen in the second category. I'm hoping that changes in November with the New York City Marathon.

A story in the Sports Business Journal yesterday said the marathon accepts 50,000 entries, and usually 39,000 show up on race day. That's 11,000 no-shows, or, 20 percent of the accepted entries. That shocked me. I really, really, really hope I won't be a no-show.

I've been training regularly since the beginning of June. I feel like a pitcher in spring training who is slowly building up his workload, going from two innings to three to four to five, etc. In the beginning I was just going three or four miles. Now my long runs are seven or eight miles.

The race is 102 days away.