In order to qualify for popular and busy marathons, you have to a) run a marathon 
before the one you actually want to run and b) get a frickin’ awesome time on said marathon-before-marathon. For me, as a [gorgeous] 26 year old, that qualifying (aka terrifying) time was 3hours and 40minutes. I’m not saying that would be impossible for me, especially if you made it some sort of race with my nemesis (that bitch) or something, but it wasn’t exactly a leisurely activity I felt like doing in preparation for the marathon I was actually interested in running. That would be an uncomfortable pace for me, and I would have to spend four months training at that uncomfortable pace; as you already read, it isn’t cool to sign up for something and then complain about it the entire time. As I also previously mentioned, here’s how you can run a marathon if you are too lazy to qualify: 
run for charity.
There’s definitely nothing wrong with raising money for charity; in fact, I wish the Boston Marathon bigwigs allowed more people to do it. If I wasn’t housing $30,000 in graduate school loans, living in an all-male high school dorm to avoid paying rent and utilities, and struggling to find a job in my post-school days then I would certainly be giving more to charity. Scout’s honor. Right now my favorite one is the Central Asia Institute which pays for schools and good stuff like that in northern Pakistan; if you haven’t read its story, Three Cups of Tea, you are insane and must immediately go do so. I also enjoy the World Wildlife Foundation, not to be confused with the wrestling kind of WWF, because who doesn’t love wildlife? I know I am kind of a hick, growing up on the ocean in Maine, attending high school on a mountain in Vermont, and spending all my free time in northern New Hampshire where deer, turkeys, fox and bear frequent the premises and six inches of snow is a “crappy” storm, but the world is a pretty good thing to invest in, don’t you think?
So charity is good. And you can apply to run for a charity (which is good). I did; I was accepted; here we are, planning out some training for the next few months. Oh, and I have to come up with at least $3,000. Sounds great huh?
before the one you actually want to run and b) get a frickin’ awesome time on said marathon-before-marathon. For me, as a [gorgeous] 26 year old, that qualifying (aka terrifying) time was 3hours and 40minutes. I’m not saying that would be impossible for me, especially if you made it some sort of race with my nemesis (that bitch) or something, but it wasn’t exactly a leisurely activity I felt like doing in preparation for the marathon I was actually interested in running. That would be an uncomfortable pace for me, and I would have to spend four months training at that uncomfortable pace; as you already read, it isn’t cool to sign up for something and then complain about it the entire time. As I also previously mentioned, here’s how you can run a marathon if you are too lazy to qualify: 
run for charity.There’s definitely nothing wrong with raising money for charity; in fact, I wish the Boston Marathon bigwigs allowed more people to do it. If I wasn’t housing $30,000 in graduate school loans, living in an all-male high school dorm to avoid paying rent and utilities, and struggling to find a job in my post-school days then I would certainly be giving more to charity. Scout’s honor. Right now my favorite one is the Central Asia Institute which pays for schools and good stuff like that in northern Pakistan; if you haven’t read its story, Three Cups of Tea, you are insane and must immediately go do so. I also enjoy the World Wildlife Foundation, not to be confused with the wrestling kind of WWF, because who doesn’t love wildlife? I know I am kind of a hick, growing up on the ocean in Maine, attending high school on a mountain in Vermont, and spending all my free time in northern New Hampshire where deer, turkeys, fox and bear frequent the premises and six inches of snow is a “crappy” storm, but the world is a pretty good thing to invest in, don’t you think?
So charity is good. And you can apply to run for a charity (which is good). I did; I was accepted; here we are, planning out some training for the next few months. Oh, and I have to come up with at least $3,000. Sounds great huh?
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