Anyone do the Chicago Marathon?
10-23-06, 07:46 PM
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Anyone do the Chicago Marathon?
I ran the Chicago Marathon yesterday...freezing cold and windy but still quite an event! I've been doing a lot of cross training and triathlons this year so I really had no idea how I would do. My last marathon was 3 years ago and I was only running and I weighed quite a bit more than now...my finishing time back then was 5:27. Yesterday I ran a 3:54 and finished in the top 25% of the pack! Now I'm thinking...the Boston Marathon qualifying time for a 52 year old is 3:35...I think I have a new spring goal! 
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Anyone else run it?
FrankpAnyone else run it?
10-24-06, 04:19 AM
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Would having run it in 1980 count?
10-24-06, 10:19 AM
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Originally Posted by fopianki
I ran the Chicago Marathon yesterday...freezing cold and windy but still quite an event! I've been doing a lot of cross training and triathlons this year so I really had no idea how I would do. My last marathon was 3 years ago and I was only running and I weighed quite a bit more than now...my finishing time back then was 5:27. Yesterday I ran a 3:54 and finished in the top 25% of the pack! Now I'm thinking...the Boston Marathon qualifying time for a 52 year old is 3:35...I think I have a new spring goal! Frankp
Anyone else run it?
FrankpAnyone else run it?
It's a very cool race. A day off for the whole area, so it is lined with people for the whole 26.2 miles. I don't know if they still allow the Wellsley girls to shrink it down to single-file, but that was pretty cool also.
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Originally Posted by fopianki
Yesterday I ran a 3:54 . . . Boston Marathon qualifying time for a 52 year old is 3:35...I think I have a new spring goal! Frankp
FrankpQuery. . . did you leave a "doable" 50 seconds a mile out there on the Chicago course somewhere? Otherwise, there is a looongg way between 3:54 and 3:35. Probably about as far as 3:54 is from 5:27.
BUT! So What? We aren't 50+ BF'ers for nothing are we?
Good luck. Keep truckin'.
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10-25-06, 04:50 PM
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I was in Chicago for a seminar and watched the start of the Chicago Marathon. We stayed at 24 E Congress which was a short walk to the start. I went out the door and into the cold at 6:45 AM to get a good place to watch the wheelchairs start. Participents were still hurrying to get to the start at 8:10 and later.
Does the timing start as soon as the race is started? 40,000 transponders would seem impossible to keep track of.
Congratulations on a great run.
Does the timing start as soon as the race is started? 40,000 transponders would seem impossible to keep track of.
Congratulations on a great run.
10-25-06, 08:06 PM
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Congrats on a great run. Good luck if you decide to go for Boston.
