Tuesday Night Means It's Chicago

Today started in Indy and the rain at 6 a.m. caused me to delay the run until my arrival in Chicago around 5 p.m. My run in Chicago was 6.38 miles, from the O'Hare Marriott in and around Park Ridge, Illinois. As with yesterday, my legs feel good. In fact, they feel too good for having run a marathon only 8 days ago.

The first lesson of wearing a GPS watch to track time and distance is to make sure you actually start the watch when the run begins. I was about a mile and a half in before realizing I was running but my fancy Garmin 405 GPS watch was not running with me. So, if you use a GPS watch make sure it is running while you are running.

Four days until the Whiskey Row Marathon and here is today's interesting facts:

• The Whiskey Row Marathon is an "out and back" course, meaning you start, run out 13.1 miles, turn around and run back 13.1 miles.
• The marathon begins in Prescott at an elevation of 5,340 feet. In about eight miles, the course continues upward to 7,000 feet (at the Sierra-Prieta Overlook) and then begins a descent back to 6,100 feet at the 13.1 mile mark.
• As noted before, you then turn around to climb back up to 7,000 feet, with the last eight miles being pretty much downhill to the finish back at an elevation of 5,340 feet.

That's the news for today!