I have received entry into the NYC Marathon 2010!

Woohoo! Take a look at this …

Dear Benjamin Hauck,

Congratulations! You have received guaranteed entry to the ING New York City Marathon 2010.

Your entry number is [redacted]. Please include this number and your name in any correspondence pertaining to the marathon. To check your status, or to update/change your personal information, click here and enter the username and password that you created within the application. Correspondence may be sent to marathonmailer@nyrr.org.

Your Official Handbook will be mailed in the summer. For further information about the event, please visit ingnycmarathon.org. Please note that the dates for the ING New York City Marathon Health and Fitness Expo, where you must pick up your race number, are Thursday, November 4 – Saturday, November 6.

Thank you for your interest in the ING New York City Marathon 2010, and best of luck.

What did I put as my expected finish time? Well, with a finish in Philly at 3:07:32, I thought I should challenge myself again. This time, I challenged myself to shave off just 8 minutes of the time to finish NYC in 2:59. 8 minutes is no piece of cake to do, though. We shall see!

Wish me luck for this November’s marathon!

Welcome to the my new running blog

Howdy! Ben Hauck here. I would like to welcome you to my new running blog titled “O’er the Hills.” In this blog, you will find documents of my runs, particularly those runs as I train for upcoming marathons.

As of this post, I’m not really running. I ran the Philadelphia Marathon in November 2009, managing a 3:07:32 personal record and qualifying for the Boston Marathon. Since then, I’ve done a lot of television work and sitting at my computer building a website, and just one run on New Year’s Eve into the New Year in Central Park at a very slow pace. I miss running but I’m not ready to pick it back up just now. But soon enough I’ll be putting in leisurely miles, and eventually I’ll be putting in more serious miles! At least for as long as I stay healthy.

So stay tuned! Susbscribe to the feed for this blog to get updates when I start to post regularly about my runs and races. Untill then, happy surfing. 🙂