I will never run the Boston Marathon. This just occurred to me last night. I had been under the mistaken impression that I could qualify for it by running a marathon in three hours and forty-five minutes, which I've never done before but which is possible. Reasonable, even. Last night, on a lark, I looked it up. In fact, my qualifying time for the Boston Marathon is three hours and twenty minutes. This is not possible. May as well cross this off my list.