So, I am getting married in 24 days… and this weekend is my bachelorette party… when asked where I wanted to go for the weekend extravaganza, all I could say was “I think I’ll go to Boston”.  I absolutely love the city, and have already planned out where I am going to be running on Saturday morning while the other 7 girls are asleep (although if I do enough convincing I may be able to get 2 of my companions to do a shorter version of my planned run).  Vacationing becomes interesting once you become a runner… my plans always tend to revolve around when I can get a run in and where I may be able to run.  This is something I research for weeks before making my journey to whatever my destination is. 

Running is something that, once you start doing it, becomes a part of your soul… it is something you can never do without… its part of your identity.  This is the first time in 2 years that I have not planned my vacations and events around and the races I would like to run, but am planning my running around my wedding and that of my cousin’s in August.  Spring events were off because I wouldn’t be able to commit enough time to training coming down to the wire… an event too early in the fall wouldn’t work because I would miss some of the most important long runs between my cousin’s shower, bachelorette and wedding… so that leaves just one race for me for this year!  Its not necessarily a race I was ecstatic about, not my first choice… but the circumstances of the important events in my life right now have led me to it…. the Philadelphia Marathon.  Now that I have been led to this race, I am getting very excited about it… its right before Thanksgiving, which makes eating a whole turkey that day acceptable… AND I may just run up the stairs of the museum and pretend to be Rocky, even though this isn’t a part of the actual race itself (it should be!)

Anyway… this brings me to a completely different point entirely dealing with the 2 cities mentioned above… Boston and Philly…. they get my vote for most angry/passionate sports fans, although Philly beats out Boston by leaps and bounds… who gets your vote?