Good Bad & The Monkey
Registration for 2012 will involve a weighted lottery. Registrants will be directed to the registration website, below. The registration website will be open for one week. That is, you will have one week to put your name in the hat. After this weeklong period closes, we will use a weighted lottery to select those who will have the misfortune of running the Harpeth Hills Flying Monkey Marathon this Fall. If selected to run your credit card will be charged $80, and we will notify you of your poor luck. If you are not selected to run, you can thank your lucky stars.Please note: there will be an option to make a $180 donation to the Friends of Warner Parks, which will allow you to bypass the lottery and get right in. This option will be available to the first 20 registrants who take this offer, on a first come, first served basis.Registration for the lottery should open on August 1, 2012 at 8AM Central Daylight Time. Registration for the lottery will close on August 8, 2012 at 8am. The lottery to be held a short time later. When registration opens, you can access the registration site from: http://www.harpethhillsmarathon.com/ under the "registration" tab.
I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.
Poor baby
"run" "2" "eat"
what? when? what when?? what???
i find the sunshine beckons me to open up the gate and dream and dream ~~robbie williams
It rained in 2011.
What will it do in 2012?
according to dallas, all hail will break loose.
Shoe Alarmist
I know you had several options. And you can't make everyone happy. But at least this idiot thinks you ended up with a pretty fair solution.
Registration for 2012 will involve a weighted lottery. Those who brought the most popular post-race foodstuffs will have more chances.
Also, I hope sippy cups will be for sale again this year.
We out-of-staters should be exempted from your fascist lottery scheme
and ... oh hell, we out-of-staters should be exempt from paying the entry
fee.
1, 2, 3 ...
Hoodoo Guru
Trent is being awfully cagey asking us to trust him about this whole "weighted lottery" thing. Apparently only he knows the formula so that it can't be rigged. The last time I trusted someone who said "Trust me" I ended up a parent.
I think the formula is: number of years running the race plus number of beers you have gifted Trent with multiplied by the number of message board posts mentioning the race divided by the number of times you have cursed Trent while running or training for the race.
Extra points are added if you have volunteered at the race, are a Marathon Maniac, a member of the Swamp, a Facebook friend of the race, run in a tutu, wear a costume, or are an FOT (Friend of Trent.)
Points are deducted for starting but not finishing the race, saying "i'll run it next year," posting about the race day weather more than 2 days out from the race, questioning the existence of flying monkeys, or posting a training plan for the race.
Anyone making mudslide jokes is automatically disqualified.
This may be the year Trent finds himself running alone.
The tangents are moot.
IMKY13 finish!!
Trent is being awfully cagey asking us to trust him about this whole "weighted lottery" thing. Apparently only he knows the formula so that it can't be rigged.
I also think that the bigger the bribe to the RD (whether it be money or beer)....the more weight one gets in the lottery
Fitness/weight goals for 2014
1) STAY INJURY FREE!!!
2) Get to 189 lbs by the end of July 2014...and stay there (as of 4-25-14 was at 203 lbs)
3) Complete Ironman Chattanooga in under 14 hours
4) Break 4 hours in a stand alone marathon (Goal race=Rocket City 12/13/14)
5) 4,500 total overall miles for the year:
Swim: 100 miles
Bike: 3,000 miles
Run: 1,400 miles
The fact this looks like an extended middle finger is no coincidence... heh.
be curious; not judgmental
What a coincidence. Here's the new route:
Monkey finger?
Le singe du Québec!!
Beware, batbear...
Is this the place where we place bribes to get weighted in the lottery?
If so, here's my pitch: If I get in, not only will this be my first marathon (go ahead, make your fun) but I will bring at least a growler each from each of Asheville's top 5 craft breweries, and a case or so of home brew if anyone is interested...
2014 Goal -- Run 5X per week, pain-free (relatively) by end of summer.