New York connections

While many of you will be sleeping, recovering from your extra hour of Day of the Dead partying (yes, Daylight Savings Time ends on Sat night/Sun morning), Roger will be spending the morning on Sunday, November 2 running 26.2 miles through the streets of New York's five boroughs: Staten Island, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Manhattan. This will be Roger's third time running the New York Marathon (the only marathon he would ever consider doing). At mile 19, he will stop torturing his body for a moment to play one song with his former band, Squirrels from Hell, giving him the much needed adrenaline to power on to the finish. The Squirrels have been playing at mile 19 along the marathon route for nearly 20 years.

Here is the map of the route.

If you are up for it, you can sign up to receive text messages or emails as Roger crosses various check points through the Marathon's Fan Alert System, so you can live vicariously through him. Sadly, since the race begins at 9:40 a.m. Eastern, that means 6:40 a.m. our time... on a Sunday morning. I doubt many of you will be following along, but it might be fun to read later to check in.

I will try to get some blog posts in, but I will at least tweet it up as this should be an exciting vacation.