The 2012 Bank of America Chicago Marathon will take place on October 7, 2012 in the Windy City.
Registration for the marathon starts tomorrow (Feb 1, 2012) at noon.
The first 45,000 to register for the race will get in. Unlike Boston, Chicago is a first come-first serve for registration. It took less than 3-weeks last year for the race to sell out.
The price will be $150 for U.S. Citizens and $175 for non-U.S. Citizens.
Chicago is known for being one of the fastest marathon courses in the United States.
Here is our first look at the inaugural 2012 Disneyland Tinkerbell Half Marathon finisher’s medal from the race that took place on January 29, 2012 in Anaheim, California at Disneyland.
Big and beautiful! Disney knows how to put together some bling when it comes to it’s series of races in Orlando and Anaheim.
Red Hot Chili Peppers’ bassist Fleatweeted the following late tonight about distance running:
“Distance running is the best way to learn how to stay present in the moment I have ever found”
Flea ran his first marathon at the 2011 Los Angeles Marathon. I was lucky enough to finish around the same time as he did and talk to him briefly in the downpour that had soaked us all 26.2 miles.
I’m glad to hear he has stuck with it. He ran the L.A. Marathon to raise money for his charity, the Silver Lake Conservatory (website).
I’ve run in Newton Running Shoes most of the last two years. Newtons help you improve your form to become more of a forefoot or midfoot striker….therefore cutting down on injuries.
Not many color options or changes have been made to the brand until now.
Newton is releasing several new colors of it’s Distance, Gravity, Momentus, MV2, and Performance trainers throughout 2012.
This medal is hot off the presses from this past weekend. Here is the finisher’s medal from the 2012 Texas Half Marathon that took place on January 28, 2012 in Dallas, Texas.
Dallas native David Thompson won the race with a time of 1:16:04.
Rocket scientist David Riddle won a very muddy 2012 Mountain Mist 50K on Saturday in Huntsville, Alabama at Monte Sano State Park. Riddle finished the 31 mile course in 3:45:58. Just three minutes behind his course record of 3:42:59 that he set last year.
He easily won the race in winning by nearly 23 minutes.
Daniel Mueller took second place with a time of 4:08:33. Third place went to Brad Schroeder in 4:14:15.
Kathy Youngren, of Huntsville, was the female winner with a time of 5:09:20.
