A true bargain. The economy must be tight. I'll start saving.

did I mention i'm only good for babysitting, giggling, and playing with puppies???

Define: puppies.

Define: define.

Shan, I'm in. It's going to be a wild stunt. Fargo - May 9th with be my last long run for this race. Gambling with your body keeps life interesting.

You should be ok ... I've done the Fargo - Duluth double in the past although Fargo was my goal race and Grandma's was for fun?!? I'll be skipping the fiasco that is Grandma's this year and only running Fargo.

That was my plan too but I'm letting my mentor make the big decesions this time. I don't know anybody's that ran the 2nd was faster than the 1st, but maybe there is some magic on what you do inbetween.

Some of it may how you prepare and your mental focus. For me I had tapered for Fargo and ran it as my 'A' race knowing full well that Duluth was a 'B' event. What happened to me was I had basically 7 weeks of limited training (3 week taper for Fargo and 4 weeks of sort of prepping for Duluth). In the end I ran Fargo in 3:44 and Duluth in 3:55 (although this was one of the 70+humid days). If Duluth is your goal and Fargo is your last long run, I assume you won't taper all that much for Fargo and focus your goal on Grandmas meaning you start tapering mid-May instead of mid-April. In the end, train hard and trust your plan and I'm sure you'll do fine. My $0.02 FWIW. pjs

Several Flying Monkeys will be there, including me, Candice, Schneidr (#1 @ Monkey 2008) and Scovill (@3 @ Monkey 2008).

Well...I might as well add my name to the list. This will be my first full marathon. I did two halves last year and figured I could handle the full this year. We'll see about that come June. I read in the swamp that there is a group getting together at Fitgers after the race. Is this an open invite to anybody? I'd like to meet some of the people who have helped me get this far.

I am there.