NEW YORK CITY here I Come!!!!!!!

ANyone-

 I checked and have "lottery" next to my name.  Does that mean I'm in?  I've never gotten accepted before and for the past 2 years I've seen th word "rejected" by my name so I'm not sure what that means.

I'm not that anxious to find out.  Reason being is that I'll have to defer to 2008 because it's the day after IM FL and I won't be able to run it.  Even if I don't get in I'm guaranteed entry for next year.  If I'm rejected again this will be my 3rd year in a row getting rejected.  After your 3rd consecutive year of rejection they finally let you in

Yeah - I just want to know so I can finally figure out my Fall race schedule.  This is the week I set to finalize my Fall HIM and marathon. 

I registered for MCM as well. If I get in NYC, I am undecided which race I will run (or maybe both).  I just want to know..........

It's so hard to plan.  And what's worse is that it's hard to plan to run it with friends because you don't know if everyone will  get in or not!

I was figuring lottery meant that I was in through the lottery and the people who had accepted were accepted by other ways.

Aha- they use "yes" or "no".  I checked and was able to get to the website, ut not able to get into teh entrant database.  Still waiting.

Ok- I didn't get in  for the 3rd year.

rollinbones - 2006-06-07 11:26 AM I got a "No" Going to see if Marine Corps is still open

Just got on - me too.  No  

Oh well, that is why I registered for MCM.  It was still open as of this past weekend. 

Talk about your all time premature posting. Went back on the website and got a big NO in the status area

But I did finally hit 1000 posts!!!

Ugh.  Are you going to run a differnet marathon instead?

Isn't that a good thing? Now you don't have to pay the full entry fee just to defer, AND you have guaranteed entry for next year.

You will be fine.  Just add a little distance to your long runs for your HIM training.  Most marathon plans don't have you doing more than 15 miles until 8 - 10 weeks out. 

See you at MCM, which looks like will be 7 weeks after my first HIM! 

You'll be fine, just may take additional planning to get you through the cycle of peak mileage/taper/raceHIM/recovery/peak mileage/taper/racemarathon. I'm now looking at a marathon six weeks after my first HIM, so I'm facing a similar challenge on a shorter time frame.

Yeah- it's better for that reason.  But I still have a complex about being rejected 3 times in a row