Marathon Recap: Spectator Edition

Congratulations to everybody who ran the Chicago Marathon today! Y’all are awesome.

Since I swore after last year’s royal fuck-up that I’d never do Chicago again, I decided I should at least cheer the runners on. So I made a sign last night that said YES YOU CAN in huge blue letters, and I headed down [...]

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My First Time

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The Things They Don’t Tell You

A couple things about my first marathon took me by surprise—namely, the fact that it’s a more emotional experience than I would have guessed.
But there are few other things nobody told me about. Like how the last two nights I woke up every time I turned over in my sleep. My muscles were so sore [...]

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The Good, The Bad, The Grammatically Incorrect

I was going to just stick this in the comments of the Marathon Recap post, but it’s too good to risk getting lost.
A sign at the starting line alerting us to the video camera said, “Smile Your On Camera.” Forget poor planning—I might never do this marathon again because of this sign.
A guy named Pat [...]

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Marathon Recap

As most of you already know, it sucked. It sucked a lot. The weather forecast for Sunday was never very good, but I don’t think anybody realized just how bad it would be. The Trib and Sun-Times both have decent write-ups, but since a lot of you have emailed, here’s what happened from my perspective.
I’m [...]

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Marathonus Interruptus

I had hoped I’d be able to finish recording all my Panama stories by now, but I’m moving pretty slowly, and I need to interrupt the travelogue to tell you about the other Big Thing: Marathon Sunday. Yup, this Sunday is when 22 weeks of training and complaining culminate in one 26.2-mile race. From my [...]

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