With that in mind I slept in until 10AM then had breakfast at McDonalds. Then I helped my brother study for his anatomy exam on Tuesday as we drove to Muscatine, Iowa for a riverboat lunch cruise. The lunch cruise was great.
Later on I picked up my race packet at the iWireless centre. Joking around with race volunteers is fun ("I am going to win this thing...as long as nobody comes in faster than 5 hours"). I also met Dane Rauschenberg who is famous for running a marathon every weekend for a full 52 weeks. He was hanging out at the Iowa Beef Farmers booth. I signed up to be on the team beef if they ever do one and got into a 'discussion' about whether we are farmers or ranchers. Cattlemen prefer to be called "ranchers"..."farmers" sounds so hick. Anyway, once he got done talking to some other fans I got a picture with him. I noticed he was signing a poster of him finishing the Ogden, Utah marathon and there was a quote on it "there may come a day when you cannot run. Today is not that day." So I said to him "that comes from Lord of the Rings." He looked a little annoyed and quickly said "Yeah my brother thinks I stole it from Tolkien but I wasn't thinking about that at all when I wrote the quote." Then when I took my picture with him I was like "Yeah this guy is cool because he writes a blog that people actually read." He thought that was pretty funny.
Anyway, turns out there is no shuttle from the hotel to the marathon tomorrow so I got to get up extra early to get there on time.
So its off to bed for a restless sleep then get up and go for a little jog.....
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Can't wait to hear how it all went down. I'm expecting a race recap soon!
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