Flashes of Panic

I can tell that I will spend the majority of my time from now until Monday either preparing for the marathon, working on something marathon-related, or actually at the marathon. I’ll probably spend as much time on the T between now and Tuesday as I do for the rest of the year.

• Many of my former RW co-workers, including my Pennsylvania roommate, are in town, or will be by the weekend.
• There are a few dozen media events, starting Friday (for my list, anyway,) and going through the weekend.
• I need to meet with the bicycle spotters at least once before the race, and that means color-printing the nifty uniforms PDF and making “marathon cards” so they can prepare for on-the-fly runner identification.
• I’ll have to do some studying. In addition to the media guide, there’s plenty of other details flowing into my inbox—a complete historic breakdown of all head-to-head matchups within the elite field, for example.
• And, as of today, I got email from the iaaf.org editor expressing some level of desperation: last year’s writer is unavailable, nobody else has responded, can I write a preview for Saturday and a quick report on Monday?

I suppose it’s not news to anyone to say, it’s nice to be wanted, but sometimes it’s exhausting.

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