My initial plans rolling into this year were to do a half marathon in the spring and a full in the fall. Since I really wanted to do the North Face Challenge in October and all the fall marathons are around the same time, I decided to do a full marathon this spring. I really didn't have any interest in doing the GO St. Louis marathon, so after looking around I decided to do the Illinois Marathon, in Champaign/Urbana.
Why not the GO St. Louis? Running in downtown St. Louis sucks! It seems that every race held in downtown is straight down a street and then back. I wanted a race that meandered around a small town and went by houses, instead of empty buildings. I may try it some other time, but not this year.
Why the Illinois Marathon? I lived in Illinois half my life and love the state. I'm a Bulls fan, a Lincoln fan, and an Illinois Higher Education fan. Outside of that I decided on this race because I figured there would be a lot less people there and it is convenient for my dad to come down and join us.
I made this decision eight weeks ago and have three weeks of training left. The training was pretty good up until my first 16 miler. More on that later.
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