Qualifying standards for the National Marathon

My finishing time in the Colon Cancer Challenge qualified me for something. The National Marathon and Half Marathon has qualifying standards to, I assume, prevent in riff raff from trying to compete and my time in the 15K made the cut. I must have had a better day than I thought.

The qualifying standards are found at http://nationalmarathon.com/qualifying.asp#qs

In summary:

• marathon - 5:00:00 (qualifies for the marathon and half-marathon)
• half-marathon - 2:30:00 (qualifies for the marathon and half-marathon)
• 20k - 2:22:00 (qualifies for the marathon and half-marathon)
• ten-miler - 1:50:00 (qualifies for the marathon and half-marathon)
• 15k - 1:46:00 (qualifies for the marathon and half-marathon) ROCKSTAR @ 1:44:19 3/22/09
• 12k - 1:18:00 (qualifies for the marathon and half-marathon)
• 10k - 1:05:00 (qualifies for the marathon and half-marathon)
• 8k/5 miles - 52:00 (qualifies for half-marathon only)
• 4 miler - 41:00 (qualifies for half-marathon only
• 5k - 31:00 (qualifies for half-marathon only)

Maybe these times could be viewed as stepping stones on the road to "non sucking?"