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Do You Feel Lucky, Punk?
Me? Not so much, so stop torturing me!
It’s never so difficult to get into a marathon until you desperately want it. Try to be a Six Star finisher and you will know what I mean.
I’ve had New York, Boston, and Chicago under my belt for years before I even became aware of the coveted Six Star medal. Then I happened to come across the Berlin Marathon lottery draw in November of 2023 and decided to enter myself and my daughter, without her knowledge or consent, of course. I do not get a Mother of the Year award for that.
Initially, she was not thrilled to receive her Willkommen! greeting in her email, but she came around to the idea of running her first marathon with me and we had a blast at the 50th running of Berlin this past September.
She forgave me halfway through her first stein of beer at Oktoberfest.
But now you see I have a problem. There are just two more marathons to go in the Abbott World Marathon Majors and I must have them.
London Marathon lottery?
Nope, try again next year!
Tokyo?
Sayonara, baby.
But then, something strange happened. I began to get unsolicited emails from the Abbott World Marathon Majors about other chances to run the…
