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I am trying to qualify for the 2021 Boston Marathon. This is not an easy task. There are in fact many people around the world also trying to qualify for Boston but there is a limited field size of 30k.

I am signed up to run the CIM Marathon in December and have joined the Cedar Park Rogue running group. We run Tues, Thur, Sat morning at 5am. Yikes, this has been a difficult adjustment! I enjoy the group and get a sense of accomplishment from running. I am able to keep up with the fastest runners so that makes me feel good, though I forget that I am not 16 any more and try to run as I did in my running "glory days". I often feel exhausted, sore and out-of-whack for the rest of the day. But by the next workout I've forgotten and am back to trying to beat my teammates in our workouts because my crazy brain things I'm racing and am 16 again. But I love it and it makes me able to pretend at least that I am an elite runner. Nils Marc Bergman ran a 2:43 and qualified for the New York marathon. Julia is trying to run a 2:45 marathon time and qualify for the olympic trials in Atlanta.


"Registration dates and qualifying standards for the 2021 Boston Marathon have not yet been announced. " baa.org This is kind of a scary statement because I'm putting so much into qualifying for 2021 and the goal is out of my control. But I guess as any meaningful goal, we can't control it completely.





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