One of my goals for 2016 is to be a bit more selective about
my races and stay away from expensive city races in Chicago on the lakefront
path. Running in Chicago means an hour
drive, expensive parking (even when it is cheap), expensive races, inconvenient
packet pick-up and running on the lakefront path. Don’t get me wrong, the lakefront path is
beautiful as it winds along the lakeshore.
What’s not to like? The idiots on
bicycles, that’s what!!! Every time I
run on the lakefront path, no matter what time of day, I find myself having to
dodge people on bicycles. If the weather
is beautiful, it becomes a huge challenge and one I’m not interested in
losing. Having said that, I may enter
the lottery for the Chicago Marathon.
One, the marathon is on city streets which are shut down to other types
of traffic and two, I didn’t get to run it last year with Team Fox. Pretty sure I’m not up to fundraising again
this year, but I would like to run the marathon again.
If I’m not going to run in the city, what races am I going
to run? I’ve already registered for
quite a few!
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Date
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Name
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Length
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2/7/2016
|
Super Shuffle
|
5K
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3/12/2016
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St. Patrick's Naperville
|
5K
|
|
4/9/2016
|
Shake It Off
|
5K
|
|
4/16/2016
|
Rockdale Ramble
|
10K
|
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4/23/2016
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SlyFox
|
10K
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5/7/2016
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Quarryman
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10 Miles
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7/9/2016
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Waterfall Glen Xtreme 10
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10 Miles
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8/28/2016
|
Mad to the Bone
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13.1 Miles
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None of these are in the city, none of them cost more than
$60, none of them have packet pickup in the city and all of them have race day
packet pickup. Each one of them is in a
different venue – not all on that blasted lakefront path!
I hope to add the Chicago Marathon to this list. If not, I may run the Naperville Marathon
this year or maybe the Portland Marathon. Heck, I might just run that
one anyway. I
also expect that I will add a Halloween run, a Turkey Trot (probably the Lisle
Turkey Trot Tuneup) and the Jingle Bell 5K in December.
Oh.... and probably Parkie's too.
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