New Long-Term Goal

My new long-term goal is to be a member of either the 50 states marathon club or the 50 states plus DC marathon club.

I have two states under my belt thus far: California and Virginia. Unfortunately, my next two races are halves. Dammit. I should've trained for fulls, then I could've gotten two more states under my belt (Texas and Louisiana). Oh, well.

Here's part of my plan...
1) Run NYC this year. If I don't get accepted, I'm going to run Marine Corps again, and do a better job!
2) Run the Houston full next year (2007).
3) Run the New Orleans full next year (2007).

Then I'll be halfway to becoming a member, since you have to have 10 under your belt to join.

I thought about doing Alaska this year, but I vowed to not start training for a marathon until I've dropped 30 pounds, and I might not have the time to do that and train. So I'll just focus on fall marathons.