[Rick Lee]

First time I ran the MCM you could still sign up the day before the race. Now it's a ridiculous lottery system that fills up nine mos. before the race and they reserve thousands of slots for charity teams, which then solicit the lottery losers and make them raise or pay $1000 to get one of their reserved slots. I've run the MCM three times and will never do it again, even if I ever get back into distance running. Seeing a bunch of walkers with the Team In Training shirts on when real runners couldn't get in drives me nuts. But I digress.

Best marathon I ever did was Berlin. I slept in my rental car for two hrs. the night before the race, it poured rain the whole time I ran and I had nowhere to change afterwards, just got back in the car and drove to Leipzig. Sure slept well that night.