A good friend of mine just graduated from law school at UVA and will shortly be moving back to New Hampshire, where she grew up, to take a clerkship. She's been following my Mt. Washington "training" since it was just a pipe dream a few years ago.
She sent me a text message with a picture attached the other day:
In case you can't make it out, that's a bumper sticker reading: "The driver of this car RAN up Mt. Washington." It's a clever play on the bumper stickers that read: "This car climbed Mt. Washington."
Well, well, well... that text message was followed the next day by another: "When is the Mt. Washington lottery? Should I enter for next year?"
Yes! Yes! The Mt. Washington lottery allows you to enter as an all-or-nothing group. They swear that it doesn't decrease your chances, but if one member of your group gets in, you all do. So we'll be a group in next year's lottery.
Anyone else want to join us?
MY QUEST TO QUALIFY NOT JUST FOR THE OLYMPIC TRIALS BUT FOR THE 2016 OLYMPICS IN THE MARATHON (to do this I will need to halve my marathon time)
On I went, out of the wood, passing the man leading without knowing I was going to do so. Flip-flap, flip-flap, jog-trot, jog-trot, curnchslap-crunchslap, across the middle of a broad field again, rhythmically running in my greyhound effortless fashion, knowing I had won the race though it wasn't half over, won it if I wanted it, could go on for ten or fifteen or twenty miles if I had to and drop dead at the finish of it, which would be the same, in the end, as living an honest life like the governor wanted me to. -Alan Sillitoe, "Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner"
This sounds like torture! I admire people that put themselves through this, but there's no way I have the courage to do the same myself. I bet a few of my running buddies would be all over this though!
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