Days are counting down

Those of us working to put on the NC Marathon don't exactly appreciate that counter that ticks off time every time you open the Web page, ncmarathon.org. We're less than two weeks from the race, and it feels like we've got too much still to pull together in too little time. Somehow, though, these things always seem to gel in the last bit of time, after the panic.

We are up to close to 850 marathoners and half-marathoners and some 600 in the family 5k. Happily, volunteer registrations are starting to roll in, too -- it takes a lot of people to help runners comfortably start, finish, and celebrate an event like this.