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As has been said, I think it is very doable depending on your base.  I plan on doing both this year and know a ton of people who have done both in previous years.  I think the biggest factor for me is going to be motivation to keep training and avoiding the mental burnout.  I'm doing IMCDA in June as well.  To keep training for the Marathon and some Tri's after that will be a challenge for me.  Good luck in your upcoming marathon and training this summer. 

Matt

I did my first oly at the Chicago tri 2 years ago and I dnf chicago marathon which is the only marathon I ever dnf at.  This was Chicago 2007 and maybe people dnfed.  Plus I felt great that day so yeah maybe it was not because of the chicago tri.

 I think you can do both.   You may not have the best marathon or tri time you could have not sure you will lose that much either.  Have been people who trained for a marathon completely on a bike due to injury.  If you added in swimming and bike/run enough to cover the marathon training I think you will be more than fine and probably ahead of the game.

i'm in a similar situation.  Doing Steelhead on august 1st and chicago olympic the last weekend in august.  It's going to be so hard recovering from steelhead and not totally dropping all of my fitness before the end of the month.

A friend is still trying to talk me into doing the marathon but i don't know.  I just don't know.

I am planning on doing IMWI and the Chicago Marathon.  That will be 5 weeks apart.  No problem.  Last year BTer Steve- did Louisville IM and IMWI on consecutive weekends.  So is it doable?  Yes.

Can you do it?  That depends on your motivation and training base.  Since you have been been training for the Illinois Marathon you probably will have enough fitness/base to complete both.  How fast you will do the marathon is another story.

I am planning on just having fun at the marathon.  There is too much blocking there to be able to run it fast.