Countdown

The countdown clock on the OBX Marathon website reads 3 days 19 hours, and I am beginning to feel that strange mixture of apprehension and excitement, as usual, that builds until we toe the starting line.  Will the 80% chance of rain really materialize?  Will we sleep well the night before?  Will we be stiff from driving 550 miles?  The answers are:  probably not, definitely not, and definitely yes.

But we are both ready and as Hamlet famously observed, "The readiness is all."  So I have posted this message from across the years from another playwright on the kitchen blackboard with that iconic photo of the bridge to Manteo.