{"id":1360,"date":"2009-05-20T07:21:38","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T12:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/?p=1360"},"modified":"2009-05-20T07:21:38","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T12:21:38","slug":"tc-10-or-262","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2009\/tc-10-or-262\/","title":{"rendered":"TC 10 or 26.2"},"content":{"rendered":"<table align=\"right\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/images\/tcmlogo.jpg?w=625&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>A few weeks ago I ran the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2009\/race-review-2009-tc-1-mile\/\">TC 1 Mile <\/a>race in Minneapolis which is hosted by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtcmarathon.org\/Marathon\/index.cfm\">Twin Cities Marathon<\/a> as part of their annual series of events.&nbsp; Part of the deal is that every 1 mile runner is put into a drawing for a guaranteed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtcmarathon.org\/TenMile\/index.cfm\">TC 10 mile<\/a> entry.<\/p>\n<p>You see the 10 mile race takes place on the same morning of the marathon, but has a lottery entry system which caps at around 6,000 entrants.&nbsp; To encourage runners to compete in&nbsp; the 1 mile and the 10 mile they offer 1,000 guaranteed entries to the 10 mile race drawn at random from the <strong>1 mile finishers<\/strong>.&nbsp; This year only about 2,300 runners finished the 1 mile race which means almost 50% of the field received entry into the 10 mile.&nbsp; <strong>Including me.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This was the e-mail I received on May 12:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Congratulations on being one of the 1,000 randomly drawn finishers to receive a guaranteed entry to the Medtronic TC 10 Mile! We&#8217;d like to offer a special &#8216;thank you&#8217; for joining us on a beautiful May 7th evening for a great downtown race, and hope the excitement of two national championship races and a sub-four minute mile is still high.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sadly, all TC Marathon, Inc entries are non-transferable, including this guarenteed entry.&nbsp; Don&#8217;t worry, even with this entry you still get to pay the full $60 plus processing fees to race.<\/p>\n<p>Even with this &#8220;great prize&#8221; I decided to get an e-mail that said this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Congratulations! You are officially registered for the 28th annual Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon on October 4, 2009.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So I have officially registered for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtcmarathon.org\/index.cfm\">2009 Twin Cities Marathon<\/a>, which is currently just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtcmarathon.org\/News\/Documents\/Medtronic%20Twin%20Cities%20Marathon%20Registration%20More%20than%20Three%2DFourths%20Full%2Epdf\">over 75% full<\/a> (pdf).<\/p>\n<p>[tags] Twin Cities, Marathon, Twin Cities Marathon, 1 Mile, 10 Mile [\/tags]<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\" class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/b427a0d7-4ca7-4998-b0c4-c13d8470bc49\/\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: medium none ; float: right;\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?w=625\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\"\/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I ran the TC 1 Mile race in Minneapolis which is hosted by the Twin Cities Marathon as part of their annual series of events.&nbsp; Part of the deal is that every 1 mile runner is put into a drawing for a guaranteed TC 10 mile entry. 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Thanks for all the congratulations, comments, and insights about my race.\u00a0 They are appreciated.\u00a0 Below are a few charts I've pulled out from SportTracks.\u00a0 They give a nice\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Marathon&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Marathon","link":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/category\/marathon\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"1896 Olympic marathon","src":"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/4\/43\/1896_Olympic_marathon.jpg\/202px-1896_Olympic_marathon.jpg","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":699,"url":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2008\/others-thoughts-about-twin-cities-marathon\/","url_meta":{"origin":1360,"position":4},"title":"Other&#8217;s Thoughts about Twin Cities Marathon","author":"crossn81","date":"October 21, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"You've read my thoughts about my race during the Twin Cities Marathon, but I thought I would share what other people have said. 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