BQ! (And a thank you shout out)

My two new favorite letters in the alphabet. w00t! I did it!

I did a 3:33:49 and needed a sub-3:40, so I'm hoping this is enough to not just SAY it, but actually get INTO the race...we'll see. So yeah, I admit I wanted to brag, because, geez, I BQ'd! But also I wanted to say thanks.

Thank you, BT, for your cheerleading, your HTFU'ing, your wonderful logs which allow me to obsessively monitor every.single. workout & goal, (and secretly stalk folks who are way faster than me to crib their workouts and for motivation, yes, I totally do this), your hilarious and sometimes irrelevant discussions about seat height and whether you should wear underwear with bike shorts or say hi if you're a girl out for a run, which helped distract and entertain me during taper and injury, for the vast range of advice I get when I post a question to help hone my training, and just your general awesomeness.

I honestly feel I could not have done this without you. So, thanks, BT. You rock my world.

Also, special shout out to BernardDogs and BrianRunsPhilly for alternating between telling me to work really freakin' hard and telling me to just chill the f out.

And also Asalzwed, because she's so darn fast and the sum of her advice to me was to just run my race.

Which I did.

I will now spend the next four months worrying and crunching non-existent numbers on whether I actually get into Boston 2014. Stay tuned.

That is all.

Please carry on being awesome. Because you are.

-Mirjam