Sellout by December 14th?

At its current pace of registering approximately 80 runners per day, the Chevron Houston Marathon is poised to sell out in 108 days -- or December 14th (which would miss by two days the deadline for allowing transfers of entries from one runner to another.)

The Chevron Houston Marathon website is reporting that it is 50% full for the marathon and half marathon combined. That would represent approximately 8,500 runners.

In Roberta MacInnis' Thursday, August 9 column in the Houston Chronicle, she reported that the Marathon said that its combined total was 6,904.

That's roughly a difference of 1,600 registrants in 20 days.

My guess is that people will continue at this pace until September 30 when pocket books will be lifted for $120 and $85, respectively, for the marathon and half marathon.

You just might be able to run the Texas Marathon Triple - the Texas Marathon in Kingwood, the Surfside Beach Marathon and the Seabrook Lucky Trails Marathon - for right at that $120 price tag.

Of course, that is, if you sign up today! (Actually, registration isn't open on the latter two events. You were able to register for Steve's event on January 2!)