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