Today’s Tuesday’s on the Run topic is Dream Races.
That ONE marathon I planned to run for the bucket list really spawned into something kind of great. Because Chicago 2007 was so sucky and hot, I vowed at the finish line that I’d never be so crazy as to run another. But by the next day I was already plotting my revenge. Revenge was sweet too. My second marathon was brought to you by the letter B and Q.
Like Chico Escuela of ancient SNL fame, remember him? Yeah I thought not. Running has been very very good to me. It wasn’t too long after that first BQ that I set my BHAG. The Big Hairy Audacious Goal. I’d run the five marathon majors (Tokyo wasn’t a major then).
Chicago? Check x 2. For fun, this is my best race pic ever, finishing the 2007 Chicago Marathon. Those aren’t even my legs. The Caveman must have been overcome by heat or something.
Boston? Check squared
New York City? Yep
London?
Berlin?
Those last two are the holdouts. I need to get my behind across the pond. The dream is to finish the quest for the majors. I don’t care which comes first. So who knows where I’d be now if that first Chi marathon had been cooler?
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I’m Linking up with Erika, Patty and April for Tuesdays on the Run.
It’s funny the things you do right after a race 😉 I love that you have a bucket list of marathons to do!
I’ve been very fortunate thus far–the majority of my races have been destination ones! Or at the very least destinations with special meaning, even if close by! My First 3 halfs were with Team Challenge–> VA Wine Country (special meaning), Nashville, and Chicago (PR and kickoff of living here!). My Marathons have been MCM in DC, Twin Cities in Minn (not a “destination” in and of itself but WOW, can’t recommend that race enough!), and Phoenix (not scenic, but what a great experience). I have Ragnar Madison to Chicago (ps, if you want to join us…..) this summer and then Chi Marathon then Boston.
So I’d say that I’m doing alright!
But if I had to stretch and think and dream–> a historic capital in Europe or Big Sur.
Not sure I have a dream race….I’d love to do one of the Disney races, or maybe NAPA! hehe!
I think I’ve told you that two of my good running friends are in the hunt for the majors. The only remaining one now is Tokyo, and we happen to have a running friend who is from there and is offering to be their tour guide over there, so they have that on the agenda for 2016. They loved the European ones (did London/Paris in one trip) and i think you need to go for it!
Roma!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Welcome back from vacation, Marcia!!! I completely agree with you on wanting to run ALL of the World Marathon Majors someday. I envy that you’ve already been able to cross Boston off of your list!!! My only hope is to BQ when I’m literally 80 years old, LOL.
Can’t wait until you can check the other big races off your list!!! So funny how you went from never planning to run another to running the big ones!
This will be the first time I’ve said this publicly, so -gulp!- here goes: I want to complete a 50 (K or miles) in all 50 states. Pretty wild goal for a girl who has currently visited less than a quarter of the U.S. LOL! But there ya go. Dream big!
I hope you get to do races in London and Berlin! That’d be so cool! 😀
I don’t really run, but I would totally do a race in Hawai’i just so I’d have an excuse to go there again! 😛
I thought you did something crazy after a winter race as well? Was it the NYE race that you weren’t going to do again? LOL
I would really like to run the original marathon in Greece but you have to have an invite for that. ;(
Wow, those are some amazing accomplishments! I really hope you get to finish off your majors list really soon! Thanks for linking up with us today! 🙂
What an amazing goal!!!!
Cannot wait to follow along with that journey.
That is great that you got to run all those races! I’m not sure what my dream race is.
oh I am not not not a runner but in an international locale?
ID RUN RUN RUN.
So funny how running can do that! you hate it then you are back at it the next day!
it is addictive! I would love to run across the pond too! 🙂
London Marathon. I want it so much.
I’d love to do New York marathon one day. I’ve qualified for it twice but it’s never been the right time for me.
It’s so funny that London is on your list (of course, since it’s one of the marathon majors), because that was my first response to your question. I was born in London so it’s always been on my list, but it’s so hard to get into. Right now my bucket list race is the Ironman 70.3 World Championships in Austria, but London will always be on the list. Maybe I’ll get there one day! Good luck fulfilling your bucket list!
Boston. Always Boston until I toe that line, and then I have no idea. London? Paris? the Great Wall?