felt a slight compulsion to post

i'm running a marathon tomorrow - my first. I hope it will go well, sub 4-hrs at the very least.

"Keep at bay all third degree gloom peddlers and people who look like flowers and feel like strangers. "

- Buford Youthward, http://artcrimes.com/byline/buford_2009_11.html

relating to the second part more than the first i suppose, but really I just want to run.