(Most of a) Marathon

As some of you may have heard, the Chicago Marathon was canceled around noon today due to the heat. I was around mile 16, headed east on Jackson when they told us to skip the Southside portion of the course and just head straight to Grant Park. I did so and crossed the finish line, but that time is for about 18 miles, not 26 -- I was on track to finish in about 6 hours. They gave everyone a medal, so I'll have to make an asterix for mine.

Until then, running in the Marathon was as crazy and fun as I expected it to be. Matt Larsen and I started the run together, but as soon as we'd seen our incredible support crew -- Erica, Brandi, and Matt's dad and stepmom -- he headed off (Matt finished for reals). There were all sorts of folks running and so many people being so supportive. And my IT Bands stopped hurting around 8 pm tonight, so I'm ready to do another (entire) Marathon as soon as I can.

After the jump, a map of the course I took.

Fuzzy's Marathon route

Comments

Dan Telfer

October 8, 2007 12:09 AM

I should just go ahead and sign up for a 5k or something. I can hope they cancel it before I fall down of exhaustion.

Congratulations for all your hard work and for getting to participate Fuzzy! What a huge accomplishment.

Matt Stratton

October 8, 2007 7:40 AM

Well that explains why the tracking website didn't have a bunch of the checkpoints for you. Congratulations though. Man, what an accomplishment.

(On an unrelated note, I want to ask you some questions about your experiences/setup with your cycling GPS, but first I'm going to dig through your blog archive before bugging you).

Jason Dufair

October 8, 2007 8:32 AM

Many congrats, Fuzzy! Glad your IT Bands are ok for now (and I thought for a sec you might have had several clusters of computer geeks creating music along the route for you - your IT Bands)