I am just brainstorming stuff.  Part of it is the perspective I got as a back of the packer on Sunday.  I ended up running near a bunch of people who I knew who were just thrilled to be able to be out there and cover the distance at all.  Somebody PRed with a 3:00, for example.  And here I am, signed up for a marathon and thinking maybe DNS because I'd be too slow?  When a couple of years ago I could not have finished, at any pace!

There will be no racing, that's for sure.  And I don't want to walk the whole thing, because that sounds horrible.  But if I think I can manage to finish without pain (well, other than the normal marathon pain), then dammit, I should do it.

Mind you, my run tonight was horrible.  Horrible.  So we will see.