Registration

Welcome to the first registration day to Nike Women's Marathon 2008!

I wanted to address a suggestion posed to me yesterday about signing up as a group. There is an option in this event to sign up as a group, and the even encourages people to participate with family and friends. However, in reading through the registration information available, it said two things about registering as a group that dissuade me from registering this way: 1) registering as a group will give you no advantage to being chosen to participate over someone who registers as an individual and 2) the group goes into the pot as one entry and has only one chance to be chosen.

So far it looks like we have about 7 people who are interested in participating in this event which is spectacular! I think it would be best if everyone registers separately because then 7 people have the chance to get chosen to participate as opposed to just one group having the chance. If you are concerned about not being chosen, email me and I have some suggestions about some extra steps you can take :)

Lastly I would recommend getting your name into registration early because that way it is done and you know your name is there and ready to be drawn.

Also, another idea I had for anyone who does not get chosen to participate, there are a few options. 1) You can run/walk the course anyway on that day or on a different day. 2) We can find another marathon/half marathon near the date of the NWM and I will be more than happy to come out and support those people who don't get chosen for NWM.

So, get registered, feel free to email me with any questions or for my ideas about getting a leg up during registration and don't forget, it opens at 10am pst!

IMPORTANT Registration Update

I checked the Nike Women's Marathon homepage to check on registration and found some important information. First, the homepage has moved to:

http://insidenikerunning.nike.com/category/events/nike-womens-marathon/

Second, the registration process for this year will be different from previous years due to the overwhelming popularity of the event. Here is what the site says about it:

RANDOM DRAWING PROCEDURE:All interested participants must register for the random drawing online thru Active.com between March 4th and March 18th. We will randomly select runners to meet our cap of 20,000 participants. Only selected participants will have their credit card charged for the registration fee. Random drawing results will be posted on the Nike Women’s Marathon website on April 1st. An email with results will be sent to each applicant on April 1st.

(from http://insidenikerunning.nike.com/2008/02/29/2008-nike-women%e2%80%99s-marathon-registration/)

There is more information on the registration site which I would encourage you to read, but I thought this was the most important information. I would recommend signing up for the random drawing as soon as possible tomorrow morning because it can't hurt to have your name in there early. And after you have entered your name, do lots of positive things so you have extremely good karma and hopefully get chosen to participate!