Chicago Rock 'n' Roll Half Marathon

Hey GSR,

As promised here are some pics from the Chicago Rock 'n' Roll half-marathon!

This race was pretty cool. This was my first time in Chicago and what a cool way to see the city. I may be a convert to this whole race-cation thing.

Anyways I'll let the pictures tell the story... 

After driving into Chicago and realizing that we could not yet check into our hotel we headed to the race expo.

The total tourist that I am... I wanted a picture with downtown in the background

This was our traffic pretty much every time we it the road... if baffles the mind how poorly we timed our driving... anyways we went back to our hotel, checked in, and headed downtown to eat and look around!

Me feeling cool to be walking along the river downtown the day before the race.

This was our first of two deep dish pizza stops of the day and it was definitely the better of the two. This was at lou malnati's pizza in downtown Chicago!

Monica's... More please face :-)

Race Day Morning!!!

Our view as we walk to the starting line!

Our line up into the corrals for the wave start. Look how cool this city looks!

Pre-race shot of the staring line.

Same thing... sans us.

This is everyone lined up behind us!

This is me... wondering... what have I gotten myself into

Monica on the other hand was way more pumped.

A photo of the race a few minutes after the start!

The city was amazing! what a cool place to race.

It felt a little like a scene from The Walking Dead with all the streets closed for the race downtown.

I love all the bridges in this city!

The breaks between the building really give you an awesome view!

So cool! we got to run by this!

Running our way out of down town.... by this point is was SOO hot and humid!

Just when we got done running out... we turn around and head back into town!

Post race pic at the bean!

Me and my partner in crime!

And of course... no race is complete without monica's post race ice cream ;-)

So that was a brief look into our race weekend! Hopefully there will be more fun race trips yet to come!

Still working of figuring out our race schedule for this fall... so if you're reading this and want to come our and run a race with some fun people that are way too into running around... Let us know!

Until next time... get our there and Just Start!

-Geoff

Muddy Buddy Chicago!

Hey GSR!

Just got back from an awesome weekend running races in the mid-west. A race-cation if you will. It was my first trip out to Chicago and we made it count! What a weekend!

I ran 2 races with my sis, the Chicago Muddy Buddy and the Chicago Rock 'n' Roll half marathon! I have some pics from both but first we'll run through the muddy buddy.

So... this little race took place in the middle of nowhere... aka just outside of Chicago somewhere in the Illinois farm country.

We had to wake-up super early and hit the road to drive from Milwaukee to get here in time, but it was all worth it! If you have never done a obstacle course/ mud run I highly recommend them! They are an absolute blast! Especially with a team of buddies!

This run was about 4.5 miles and you had to run the entire race with a buddy! no solo runners! many of the obstacles required 2 people to compete! It was a blast to work together and conquer the challenges of the course!

Unfortunately we only have pics from the beginning and end... still enjoy and find a run like this near you and give it a shot! This definitely will not be my last!

Special thanks to Michael Stevens for taking most of these photos!

Sure... we had to wake up at 4am... but now we get to run through the mud!

The Finish line... This is our goal!

Brother love!

She is ready to get her race on!

Naturally we have to take a picture with the frogs.

Cindy lou who?

Lining up!

At the starting line

Getting ready!

GO!

Almost done... just a few more ropes to climb

Rounding the final bend

Up more ropes!

Over the wall

CHARGE!

Butt Slide!

Through the MUD!

Swim! Swim! Swim!

Up and out!

Bringing it home!

First place overall in the Coed Division!

Our Chicago Race-cation friends Michael Stevens (left) and Ben Morey (right)

After this we were off to Chicago for some pizza, sightseeing, and of course the Rock 'n' roll half-marathon! Picture of this to follow soon!

In the mean time... find a mud run, spartan race, tough mudder or something crazy and register for it with your friends and have a blast! You will not regret it!

Also I am still putting together our fall race schedule so let me know what your are running/ what you want to run!

Just Start,

-Geoff

Race Weekend!

Hey Long time no chat!

School has kept me really busy, but I hope that we have all stuck to our running routines!

This weekend I'm flying out to Chicago to run two races with my sister and sport some GSR in a new state! It should be awesome!

The two races we are running are...

The Muddy Buddy Chicago

The Rock 'n' Roll Half Marathon Chicago

I've never been to Chicago so this should be a blast! Is there anything I should be sure not to miss?

Lots of cool picture to follow this next week :-)

P.S.

I'm in the process of getting our fall race schedule put together so keep on following!

Hope to keep hearing from all of you!

-Geoff @GSR