i love it when it sucks!

Off to the Run Through Time tomorrow, to hammer the marathon and finish all the Salida bars in my Liquid History book.

Check out the latest course conditions:

"A course condition update. (Barring any further snow/rain) The route should be mostly dry for the first 8 miles. Expect some mud and some slick spots from 8-17.5 miles. Tuesday morning there was significant snow from 17.5-23 miles. 17.5-18.1 miles was recently tracked by a vehicle (rutted snow). The next few miles have 2-16" of snow on the ground, with a few bare spots. It has been tracked by a few humans and deer/elk. Expect very slow going here. The race directors have decided to keep the original course, despite this snow.

Please keep this snowy section in mind. If you wake up on the wrong side of the bed, consider switching to the half marathon before the start. We are not totally equipped to evacuate most of the marathon field on short notice if it can not continue. If you get to the final aid station at 17.5 miles and have doubts, drop out and return to the finish on the plowed route the way you came (dryer but shorter). Saturday morning, you may change from the half marathon to marathon at registration/ number pick up. You can not officially switch races once you start."

Woohoo! Sounds like it's gonna be pretty shitty conditions out there! I'll be fine, as this'll be my 10th marathon and I'm in pretty good shape for it (I've run at least 16 races farther than the marathon distance, FYI). But everyone better be rooting for Katie. She sure picked a doozie for her virgin marathon!