Ready To Go

After six months of getting up early on Saturday mornings to run long runs, I am as ready as I'll ever be to run the inaugural Rock N Roll Seattle Half Marathon this Saturday. In fact, I can't wait to just actually run it. I am not expecting to be fast or anything miraculous like that. I plan to walk when I take water breaks at every mile, and to take photos. What's the point of running it if I don't have photos, LOL. This is my first half marathon (13.1 miles). I ran the Honolulu Marathon (26.2 miles) in Hawaii in December 2000. Yes, I think I'm doing it backwards! Tonight I'm packing up my running gear, including my little clip-on iPod Shuffle. It is 2 GB and I had a lot of music on there before. But I picked out about three hours worth of my favorite running songs and only put those on there. I don't want to have to reach down and skip songs. I only wanted the songs I really want to hear during the half marathon on there. So here is my playlist. If you run, I'm interested to know what your favorite running songs are. Today Todd had lunch with a couple of friends that he used to work with at TD Waterhouse (now called TD Ameritrade). Todd and his friends Dave and Moji worked at TD Waterhouse on their financial advisor website. In 2005, TD Waterhouse moved their whole IT department to New Jersey, then merged with Ameritrade. Nobody in the whole department took the company's offer to move to New Jersey, so they were all let go with a severance package. Dave and Moji have actually worked as contractors at Todd's new company, and they've stayed in touch with regular lunches. I'll "see" you tomorrow night from the Emerald City!