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Race Reports for Chicago Marathon 2006

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Race rating (4)
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: The only thing I would have changed about Chicago was the weather, and my injury. It would be nice if the course was run backwards since you spend the last few miles in a not so nice part of town, but overall, the course was beautiful. Just wish there had been more sunshine!
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Race rating (5)
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: Great race. Great atmosphere. Best and worst is there are so many spectators. Best - Great that you run the whole course and there isn't a area where someone isn't cheering you on. Worst - Setting up meeting points for my family and to see them...and there are so many people that you can't find them.
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Race rating (5)
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: In spite of the time, and in spite of the pain, I consider this one of the best times I have ever had, and a total success. I am excited to do another one and already have a preliminary list of potential race choices. After all, with a 6 hour finish time, I have GREAT PR POTENTIAL !!
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities?
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: I couldn't believe how smoothly everything went with the sheer number of people. I won't do this race next year because trying to marathon train during the school year was just to stressful, but I hope to go back in 2008 :)
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: Well I definitely left Chicago with some hugs/looks/runs/dances/pictures/medals...of a lifetime. Great race...can't wait for what is next...
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[6]
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Race rating (5)
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: This is by far the best and hardest thing I have ever done and I hope to have many more challenges ahead. I'm glad I could share this experience with great people who have now become more to me than running buddies-they are true friends.
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: Chicago is a great event. It is done very well. Amazing volunteers and spectators. Even in the cold, the people were out in force and the energy was amazing.
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Race rating (5)
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: Awesome post race party in millenium park. The band was great, there was plenty of food and drink.
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Race rating (5)
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: Crowd was wonderful as usual...I am disappointed that I did not qualify for Boston but I'm proud to say I finished even with the 2 issues. I caught the pace group about Mile 12 like I planned and eased up to the point pretty well. Didn't like staying behind the group because at the water stops it was a terrible mess, so I got slightly ahead of them at about Mile 14 or 15 and was pully away.....maybe that was a mistake, anyway, I was on a 3:20 pace until Mile 22 or so..I think I can do this Boston thing. The weather conditions were not perfect but they weren't tooo terribly bad. The last 3 miles were brutal though because they were straight into the wind. I still hate that bridge going into the finish area..but hey it is a great course and event...I hope this was entertaining..I have to chuckle myself at some of things that happened...As usual the fans were awesome!!Thanks everyone who was cheering!! Elvis was pretty cool and the most important thing I remembered Chinatown this time...I
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[10]
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: Just last march 2006, I could not run two miles straight without stopping. Today I ran 26.2. I feel awesome. Also have even greater respect for the Ironman- still seems unattainable,... but a little bit closer then before.
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  • Lots of volunteers to help?
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  • Comments: Very nice race... but I dropped out on mile 6...
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Average
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: ran 1st Marathon w/ knee injury. cramps mile 18 and up, had to walk and stretch. cold weather effected the cramps. did not have cramps in training. weather ranged anywhere from 35 degrees to 40 degrees, windy in certain areas.
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities?
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: This is an awesome event! Everything from the volunteers, to the race staff, to the citizens of Chicago were great! I would highly recommend this race to anyone who wants to do a marathon. Next year its going to be on 10/7/07. The only critisism that I have for the race is the check-in, packet pickup process and expo. Those are held at a site different than the race so if you don't know the city and some of the different venues, you may not realize that. Its not really well documented in the paperwork that its at a completely different site and that it is actually miles away from the race site.
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: Will be in Chicago Oct 7th 2007!
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Race rating (5)
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: POst party looked great but too far for two trips from hotel.
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