The Chicago Marathon is back with a new namesake sponser - Bank Of America. Registration opened Feb 1 for the nation's most popular beginning marathoner's marathon. Price is a steep $110 but the loot includes a technical running shirt, I'm sure a goodie bag, and a ChampionChip to borrow.
I don't know what the demand is exactly, but it its only open to the first 45,000 registrants - I'm pretty sure they fill up every year. I just registered minutes ago. In case you want to find me, I'll be in the "Hopefully 4:30" pace group. :)
It will be my first marathon. My first half marathon is coming up in March (The ING Georgia). Right now I'm up to long runs of about 8 miles, but I feel like that can be bumped up to 10 or 11 whenever time allows. I should be in the position to run a 12 or 13 miler BEFORE the ING Half Marathon March 30. Then my hope is a slow build up to around 22 miles before Chicago - so the marathon will have about 4 miles of "uncharted territory" as far as my running expectations. I am not doing a plan really. I've found I have too unreliable a schedule; often going a week or two without being able to run. So far the slow and steady has worked without injury.
Hope to see you there! Get your registrations in early!
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I just registered over the weekend, and posted about it yesterday. I trained for it and ran it last year, at least until they closed the course. So I'm looking forward to actually finishing this year!
Jim
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