What Liliya Shobukhova lacked in marathon experience she made up for with track speed. And on a day when the women were content to play a cat-and-mouse game relying on slow pace and strategy, Shobukhova was able take advantage of her strengths. In only her second race at the distance, Shobukhova won the Bank of [...]
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Sammy Wanjiru accomplished most of what he set out to do on his first trip to America. The 23-year-old reigning Olympic marathon champion, after flirting with world record pace, won the Bank of America Chicago Marathon in 2:05:41, beating the course record by one second. It was also the fastest time ever run in the [...]
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The ultramarathon man Dean Karnazes knows a thing or two about long-distance running. After all, he’s got more ultras under his belt than he can count and famously ran 50 marathons in 50 days in 50 states in 2006. But he’s adding another achievement at Sunday’s Bank of America Chicago Marathon—two marathons back-to-back.
He’ll start with [...]
A new Chicago Marathon tradition keeps the city buzzing.
Take a drum line, a couple Olympic medalists, a marathon legend, the city’s newest football hero and enough cowbells to satisfy Christopher Walken—and you get a sense of the scene at Niketown Thursday as the marathon sponsor kicked off marathon weekend with a pep rally and fun [...]
Mayor Richard M. Daley helped the organizers of the Bank of America Chicago Marathon kick off the start to marathon weekend by honoring Carey Pinkowski for his 20 years as executive race director of the event.
At this year’s marathon press conference, Daley revealed that the race’s start at the intersection of Monroe Street and Columbus [...]
Kick Off Marathon Weekend with Pep Rally at Niketown
Are you ready for marathon weekend in Chicago? Niketown is bringing in the big guns for a pep rally on Thursday, October 8, to help kick-off a weekend of activities celebrating the Bank of America Chicago Marathon.
A slew of elite athletes will be coming to Niketown, 669 [...]
People may think of Mackinac Island as a summer destination, but it closes out the fall season with a memorable half marathon
Runners are used to their races being closed to traffic. But on Mackinac Island, that isn’t necessary.
The car-free island located just to the east of the Mackinac Strait, which separates Michigan’s two peninsulas, is [...]
