Well, I’m entered into two lotteries today. The first is the Texas Lotto which has a current estimated jackpot of $120,000,000 (or a cash option after taxes of approximately $40m). I don’t think that that will happen but, hey, you never know.

More seriously, this afternoon I’ll find out whether or not I’ve made it through the New York Marathon lottery. Winning this has a cost of about $80, oddly enough, and I figure I’ve got about a 1 in 3 chance of getting in.

That brings up other questions though. I’m really not where I wanted to be at this point. Between stretching my 5K races, a couple of minor injuries, some additional travel and work, and a small but significant amount of procrastination, I don’t have the 25-30 MPW base that I wanted to have right now. Maybe half that over the last couple of weeks. That’s pretty bad. I can cut down to a less aggressive schedule, but I’d really like to do well this year.

So. If I get in, my schedule has me doing 30 mile weeks with a 10 mile LSD run starting in two weeks. I think that I can still do that without a real problem, but I need to get my act together starting right now. Er, tomorrow at any rate. That will mean getting up early every day which is a little annoying, since that means less time to share with my lovely wife (we’ve been married less than a year). But I know that we can adjust our schedules accordingly, and getting into better shape is important to me.

So. Either NY, or M2M. I’ll know this afternoon. Check on entrant 32890 if you’re curious as to how I did and I haven’t updated. I’m really hoping that I make it, because I’ve started thinking that skipping M2M might be alright to build strength, but I know that (for me) that’s my internal laziness talking. I think I need this goal to get my mileage up to where it needs to be, odd as that might sound.

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