Jamboree! We're off to the NYRR youth Jamboree at Icahn Stadium, where Kiernan is going to run a 400 and try the long jump (he was begging coach at the end of outdoor season and he finally gets to try it here, where 400m is the longest event and it doesn't matter.) There's an 800 for 10-12 yo, but alas, my budding teen is too old for it. It was supposed to rain horribly all day, but so far it's all cloudy blue skies.... may it hold out.

I'm supposed to fit 15 miles in somewhere this weekend and, since I didn't wake up hours early to do it right now, it looks like it'll be tomorrow in the cold pouring rain. Pray for me.

In the meantime, I can obsess about Accuweather! Hooray! The 15 day forecast is now up to Marathon-Eve (known to sane people as Halloween) and says it will be perfect - sunny, high of 50, low of 40. Yesterday, it said it might rain. Ah, obsessing!

Speaking of obsessing, I bought this book yesterday,and it started making me cry around Fort Wadsworth. I'm only to the Martin Lel section (the book traces not only the history of the race, and a play-by-play of the 2007 marathon, but also weaves in the personal stories of several elites and a few every day racers) but I'm already heartily endorsing it. I read the author, Liz Robbins, relatively frequently in the New York Times Well Blog, and I've been using the Times' cool marathon training mileage tracker, so it caught my eye as I browsed in Borders* yesterday. Just. Awesome. I bought that and Duel in the Sun; more on that eventually.

Now, oatmeal! And in an hour or two, Jamboree!

*What does it say about my reading habits that I now gravitate directly to the Sports sections and settle by the running books for half an hour every time I walk into the Borders around the corner from my office? No more buy one, get one 50% off paperbacks; no, it's all Glover and Pfitzinger and Daniels and Bowerman and the Men of Oregon for me. Does running make people less literate? Discuss.