Sweet home Chicago is my hometown marathon. The course is flat, fast, and a great opportunity to push your limits and show off the results of all those summer miles logged under the heat and humidity while your friends sought shelter and air conditioning.

This year's race had perfect weather and

This is a great race and well-executed marathon. There are three distances available, but I liked that all the distances started at the same time and we could run together for a while. This wasn't a huge race, and I liked the personal feel and the course was along a river

This was the 2nd year I ran the Chicago Marathon. Love the course, love all the spectators! This year there was an issue leaving Grant Park. Huge cluster of people trying to get back to Michigan Ave, all the gates prevented everyone from exiting smoothly. There was a lot of standing