Chicago Half Marathon

On Sunday, September 13th Cameron participated in the 13th Annual Half Marathon in Chicago. Although he has bad memories from running the full marathon in 2007 (it was a record breaking HOT day in October), he thought he would try again with the half. He did really well, finishing 13.1 miles in 1 hour, 55 minutes. He still plans to run one more marathon but would rather not run Chicago again. He's hoping to get into the New York City marathon next November. The NYC marathon has a limited number of slots available for runners, so they use a lottery to select. Cameron has tried the past 2 years, but has not been selected. We've heard there is a guarantee on the 3rd year if you haven't gotten in the previous 2 years so hopefully we'll be heading to NYC next November to cheer him on!

We ganked this picture from the marathon photo website because I was unfortunately unable to head into the city to cheer him on this time and get pictures. I would have had to leave at 6am just to have a chance at seeing him finish and it wouldn't have been guaranteed. Fighting traffic with a 7 month old didn't sound too appealing, so we cheered him on from home!