Might not be able to make Portland 3 Bays Marathon

Spoke to my wife earlier in the week about a few days at Portland on the weekend of 30/10/05 so as I can run the marathon on the Sunday. Well, apparently we have a family function to attend on the Saturday night at Seymour, which means I'd cop a lot of flack if I was to run the marathon. My experience with some of our family functions is that some of them are cancelled at the last minute. So I'm still training as if I'm running the marathon that Sunday anyway. Got to do something with my time.