Beantown Podcast - Chicago Marathon 2021 Special (10082021 Beantown)

Episode Date: October 8, 2021

Quinn comes to you LIVE just 40 hours before running the Bank of America 2021 Chicago Marathon to preview the course, with all sorts of stories, people, and hijinks along the way. See you Sunday! Bib #24105

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furnace. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furnace presents the Bean Ton podcast for Friday, October 8th, 2021. What's going on? How are you? What's happening? My name is Quinn. And this is my show. Thank you for tuning in. If you're listening, you can also find a video recording of this show on YouTube. I am recording this live so you can check it out there. You might be wondering, hey, Quinn, what's going on? Why are you doing that? And I'll tell you why. This is our 2021 Bean Tom Podcast season four Chicago Marathon special, which will be run by yours

truly in two days. We're what like 30, like 48 hours a little bit less than 48 hours away. Getting a phone call right now from potential spam, Millsboro, Delaware. If you're looking at the, this could be like a movie poster right now. Look at the video of this. I've got like the triple reflection going on. It's, oh, now it's coming through on my Mac. That's crazy.

I don't know who this is. But it's like your, you know, it's like the infinite mirror that you're looking at. It's pretty cool. This would be, you could make this a movie poster right here. I tell you what. I don't know what I was saying. Oh, we're gonna be sharing our screen because I'm doing a little video recording here

so that you all can follow along as I'm taking you through the twists and turns, the neighborhoods, all that good stuff today on the show. So that's what we're gonna be doing for most of it. I wanna mention, listen to your discretion as advised when you're listening to the B-Time podcast. Remember one, we'll occasionally use some language.

Number two, spot guess is objectively terrible. Although I think today's gonna be a lot of fun. You know, some of my listeners out there have probably run the Chicago Marathon before. Some of my listeners out there are probably volunteering. Heather Chicago Mar marathon on Sunday. And I think it's going to be, I think it's going to be a good time. It's going to be hot.

Current weather forecast for Sunday says 81 in cloudy. So the clouds are, that's good news because I think it's supposed to potentially rain in the afternoon. So I'll take clouds like that's a huge deal is not being in direct sunlight. That could be really beneficial. Now it is very muggy here in Chicago. The humidity has been high lately and we're not really going to be able to escape that I don't think. But in 81 obviously much warmer than I want. It's going to be very sweaty, but if we can avoid consistent direct sunlight, I think that's going to make a huge difference. I've already made the executive decision

to do this one shirtless. If you're watching the live stream and all of a sudden you get a camera angle and you're blinded by the light, you know. You might need cornea surgery, but at least you found me. Okay, you know when you know at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark when they open up the Ark of the Covenant and it's just like this beaming light up into the heavens that's kind of what I expect. You know, based off of this pale bod here, the base layer I got in Punta Kanna back in June is not stuck around too much. Although I have been running shirtless five times a week every week the entire summer up until this week which I have taken off. For obvious reasons, I don't want to hurt myself for a Sunday but I was also doing a little

bit of traveling in Ohio. My first road trip for work that I've taken in a very long time. I woke up very early on Monday morning. Oh, I also mentioned I was going to mention this before. I'm sipping on some tea here because I'm sick. I couldn't make it through one work trip without coming down with a cold. So, dealing with sore throat, a little bit of congestion, although not too bad. Headache, pretty bad headaches, I'm just trying to drink as much as possible. Honestly, I've been lucky because when I'm just kind of like bumming around lying here, or like sitting on the couch, it's really not, you know, that big of a deal. When I have to like talk a lot, or when I get up and start to walk around quite a bit,

that's when it really, especially in my head, that's when it starts to hit me. So, doing my best to just kind of lie low, I do have to go down and down to McCormick place after this and pick up my race packet, which is always exciting, but it's also just like a very crowded experience. And if I think I think if I was feeling 100%, I'd be really excited, but not feeling good to be perfectly honest, which is another wrench in the Sunday plans,

but we're just gonna have to do what we can do. So I'm sipping on some tea here. I think it looks like we got raspberry, high biscuits, jasmine, I don't know, it's good stuff. I think it looks like we got raspberry Hi Biscuits Jasmine I Don't know it's good stuff Hot hot hot it really need some honey that would help to Coat my throat a little bit better, but unfortunately believed or not my honey is down in my office in downtown Chicago

So I will get it later when I can get it. But yeah, I was in Ohio woke up very early Monday morning and by very early, I mean, four o'clock a.m. because here's a thing. I got the car in Sunday morning and I was I had to start work in Cincinnati at noon local time. So 11 o'clock central on Monday morning. And it was just like, do I really want to spend part, if not most of my Sunday, like driving to Ohio just so that I can like be lazy on Monday morning, wake up and feel comfortable. I was just like, you know what? I love my Sundays way too much. Get to spend them with family like, just like you know what I love my Sundays way too much get to spend them with family like

I don't want to give it up. So I made the decision to wake up very early It's about a five-hour drive from Chicago to Cincinnati. It's a very easy drive. You just get out to You know northern Indiana you take 65 South to Indianapolis and you hop on 74 East and goes right to Cincinnati Super easy drive. I will say though very spooky Okay Indiana and even into Ohio on Monday morning super foggy. It was like What's the guy with the headless horseman? That's kind of what it was like, okay? Very rip van Winkle very spooky foggy, driving on the interstate, especially like between Chicago and Indianapolis 65. You know, like could barely see in front of you at all. Kind of scary, but kind of neat as well.

And made it through the fog, got to Cincinnati in record time. And yeah, the whole week was pretty good. I didn't do any I didn't really you know do anything this was you know such a kind of an involved road trip where you know I go to Cincinnati and Monday work there for three hours. I then went there's kind of this cool like overlook kind of Cincinnati's version of Griffith Park in Los Angeles. You go up there, it's got a beautiful view of the river, you're, you know, high above on like a bluff BLUFF above the river, just east of downtown. So the way you're situated, you can't really see it on town, but you've

got, you know, you can see the entire state of Kentucky, from up there along the Ohio River. And I sat down to have my lunch and made it about 60 seconds before I got double-teamed and not in the fun, Friday night kind of way. Double-teamed by bees and geese. I don't know if they had some sort of packed up in that park, but they were organized and they were working together, and I'm not joking. I could only sit out there for about a minute before I was just like, really don't want to get stung by bees or nipped by a goose, and there were a lot of geese. I'm going to sneeze. It used to me. So I retreated back to my car after about a minute of a picturesque view. And then I was sitting my car finishing my lunch and there's a storm rolling in so I'm like, okay, I'm going to get out of here soon.

But there was this guy feeding geese in the park and I've never seen so many geese in one area before. I mean, I have a picture on my phone. I'll pull it up here so that if you're watching the video stream, you can see what I'm talking about. I mean, it's going to be tough to do it justice, but here, you can hold it up to the screen. There's got to be at least like, I don't know, 40 geese in that picture alone. And you couldn't even capture the whole magnitude of it.

They just kept coming and coming. There were so many of them. It was bizarre. So I knew I had to get out there because it was just like spooktober and full effect. So I get out of there and get some coffee and I drove up to Columbus and I'm pretty neutral on Columbus. It's kind of like, it has a very modern feel, which isn't negative or positive or anything. It's just like, I don't know, I never really, I don't know anyone there. I don't tend to really do anything there when I get there. So, drove to Columbus, it's like two hours,

stayed at the same hotel, that I stayed at last time I was in Columbus and I had severe flashbacks, not PTSD but just like light severe trauma because this hotel's Wi-Fi is just like the worst thing of all time and this is a total first world problem. But it's really just a pain in the ass when you're like trying to do work or send some Snapchat selfies, you know, like guys do. And it's, yeah, I'm gonna have to find a new hotel next time. I mean, this one's super close to campus, but there's got to be at least one other hotel in Columbus, I would think. So I'll try that next time. So,

work in Columbus in the morning and get there. They always give you these candies, chocolate and peanut butter candies, that are created or molded to look like buckeye's, the state flower or tree of Ohio. And these things are naughty, man. It's basically, you know, imagine a buck eye and the outside is chocolate in the inside with a lighter compulsion is peanut butter. Man, slam those babies, three of them in a sleeve. Whew, that's good stuff, good sugar rush. And then drove to Dayton, Ohio, home of the flyers,

just like an hour and a half there, worked there that night, and then afterward had one more hour, hour plus of driving to get to Oxford, Ohio. Getting from dating to Oxford, there's not an interstate. It's just like literal country roads. Low spooky at night, I was a little concerned that I was gonna hit a deer or something so I was taking it slow But stayed there worked at Miami University in Oxford the following day and Actually had a really good event there which I wasn't expecting but went super well

They and I had to drive all the way back to Chicago after that which is about five hours So a couple a couple of long days there, but made it back at like seven or eight on Wednesday night. And whole time was coming down with the cold. And yeah, pretty much since I got back on Wednesday night, I kind of just been like sitting inside my dark apartment. I've only left the apartment like a couple times. I actually had to teach last night. So I had to go down to campus for that.

But otherwise, just kind of been chilling here. There are some other things that happened throughout my tails that were semi-interesting, but I'll skip over for now because we got stuff to talk about. We got stuff to do and I'm also just trying to conserve my energy and my voice a little bit here because I really don't want to be like dealing with a super bad surrathor on Sunday morning trying to breathe, take in 35,000 steps or whatever like. We're trying to mitigate that, okay, but the podcast doesn't stop. Podcast doesn't sleep.

I believe this is episode 196. And you can't slow down this big dog. So let's go ahead and let's jump into it here. The reason you're all here, not to hear about me driving through corn fields in Ohio and Indiana. I did have one good thing to eat. I went to this bakery outside of no incense in Eddie, this old Italian bakery and got a black and white cookie, which was solid, and an apple turnover. I wanted to say that there was anything about what I ate that was like, oh my gosh, it's the greatest thing I've ever had,

but they were very well done, very well crafted, no complaints. Yeah, I just don't really go to bakeries often, although I eat plenty of carbohydrates. I figured if this was gonna be one week to really load up and not feel too bad about it, this would be the week. So, I also haven't had to drink since last Friday, I think maybe Saturday, I think last Friday, though,

I can't remember what day of the week it is, what's going on. So it's only been a week and hey, I've done a year, but yeah, I don't know, I don't necessarily feel any lighter or cleaner right now, but just something to know. Okay, let's go ahead and share the screen here. I've got the map pulled up. We're gonna jump into some Chicago marathon talk for you. Hopefully you can see my map here.

Got it zoomed in a little bit. Okay, so if you're wondering, Hey Quinn, why are you even running this thing in the first place? Have you run it? Do you know what you're doing? hey, Quinn, why are you even running this thing in the first place? Have you run it? Do you know what you're doing? Okay. So I actually listen. These days, I don't really listen back to old shows too much, but I was kind of curious.

This is the first marathon we've run, excuse me, while doing the Bean Town podcast, because the last one I ran was in October, mercy, that tease coming back up, October of 2017, which was about two and a half months before this show launched. But I did go back, I was kind of curious, and I just got lucky because I didn't really, the way we used to title these shows, we just, the date, and that was it. But I went back to four years ago or three years ago and our first season to this podcast week in history, which was like 10, 7 or something, uh, 2018. And I was like, I wonder what I was talking about, just because I had some free time this morning while I was working just to listen in the background. And I did end up, I was watching the Chicago marathon

live stream on my laptop. And I also spent most of the episode telling, I was watching the Chicago marathon live stream on my laptop, and I also spent most the episode telling. I was curious to, you know, have I ever told the story of my Marine Corps marathon experience on the show, which is the last one that I've run. And I did. So, you know, not that people really remember, but it was a really awful experience involved a lot of driving beforehand. I was literally working in Pittsburgh that week and then on a Friday was working in Philly finished at like 4 p.m. or

something had to drive bat or had to drive down the National Harbor which is just southeast of Washington DC to pick up my packet just had to get there before like eight o'clock when the Expo closed. Was there for like 15 minutes, got my packet, drove back to Philly. The whole thing round trip was like eight hours or something. It was brutal on a Friday night, I 95 traffic. And then got, had to actually work in Philly on the Saturday too. And then after that, I then drove to baseball. I drove to Baltimore, the other B word. And then dropped my stuff off.

And then I drove down to DC, had to drop off my rental car. And finally got to the place I was staying, shout out to Annie and Zach who hosted me, they live in Washington, DC. Stayed there, I got about four hours of sleep before I had to wake up and then getting to, you know, getting to the start finish line, which is by the pentagon, was a total pain in the butt. It was just really not a fun day, super hot, pulled my hamstring while I was running. And it's just an awful experience. So that was my last marathon. What I don't really talk about too much

is my first marathon, which was a great experience. Chicago 2016, I decided to run it on a whim. I registered or I entered the lottery. You know, this was my senior year of college. I wasn't a runner at all. People know me now as a runner. It's a big part of my identity. It's a lot of what I post about on social media, so I completely get it.

But I think people might assume that I was like, that's always been my thing, is that I like long distance running. And that couldn't be further from the truth. Until I literally turned 21, the first 21 years of my life, all through, you know, up until the last, you know, three months of my undergrad, I wasn't a runner at all. Like, just I would, you know, as a three sport athlete, two and a half sport athlete in high school, and then would like go to the gym occasionally just to kind of dick around and then play like intermeryl's an undergrad. But I wasn't really like someone who's working out all

the time and it wasn't a big part of my identity. So I just decided to enter it on a whim. I was like, let's see what happens. Back when I was 21, just turned 21, or maybe even when I was still 20. And I got it. And then I went, you know, they talked about the couch to 5K training programs. This was literally a couch to marathon.

Star-Dade with the treadmill. In 1237 West, the student housing where I was in RA could barely run a mile, worked it up to two miles. I remember spending a lot of time watching, was at Euro 2016. That year is in like March or April or something. I think that was the year when Denmark was it or Iceland. One of those two had just like a huge run. And I think they made it to like the semi finals or something. So I remember watching all their games cheering them on. That was really cool. And then eventually, you know, the summer started running outside a little bit. That was a new experience for me. I never run, you know, probably longer than like a two or three miles outside, if

that. And yeah, the Chicago 2016 marathon, it was great. I had a lot of nerves, a lot of adrenaline. I had never run an organized race before. That's the other thing. I jumped into the deep end and all this stuff. There was no 5Ks, no 10Ks, no halves, no 1m, no 400m dash, 110m hurdles. Quinn went from, I don't run at all to, here's my first race, come be one of the big six marathon. I said, go big or go home. I went big and then I went home.

I could barely walk for about the next two days after that. I remember going to work up in Evans staying the morning after and my boss had run it as well. And we were just moving slow. Yeah, I'm fingers crossed, hopeful that I won't feel quite as bad Monday. This time around, although I have taken it off work and I don't plan on moving very much

in anticipation of the pain, because this time I'm actually doing it with some injuries, which is going to be quite an adventure. For those of you who haven't been following, I am currently dealing with two notable injuries, which don't slow me down much in kind of my day to day, but anytime I run long distance, they really start to add up. So I got Planner Fashiiitis in my left foot and I got some tendonitis, patellar tendonitis in my left knee. And that's actually the one that comes up, you know, just in like day to day,

more frequently than my foot problem because what happens with my tendonitis is if I sit for anything longer than maybe like 45 minutes, if I'm sitting with my left knee bent, it really starts to get sore. And so it helps when I can extend it out and stuff. But as you can imagine, like my last couple airline experiences have been awful. But I wasn't hurt when I decided to enter the lottery for this one. And here's the thing.

When I ran my last marathon in 2017, as a lot of people say, when they run a marathon, if they're not huge runners, and I really don't consider myself to be a huge runner, it just kind of worked out this way the last 19, 20 months or so. But a lot of people say, this is my last marathon,

I'm not doing another one again. Kind of like you finish a degree, and my last marathon. I'm not doing another one again. Kind of like you finish a degree and you're like, I'm not going back to school. And that is another thing that I feel strongly about right now. Could change in the future, but man, I really don't wanna spend four years working on a doctor right now.

But back to the racing. My point here, oh, and I forgot to mention, shout out to my friends in Pakistan. Thanks for listening. Hydrobat, Islamabad, Kiberpast, wherever you're listening from. Thank you for making us the 112th ranked comedy podcast and your beautiful nation, wearing my green Chicago Marathon 2016 shirt in honor of your gorgeous flag. So, if you want to do a partnership or something, the official state department department or maybe I could do something from the embassy. I it could be good

Just hit me up bean-town podcast Yahoo.com. It's bean-town meaning podcast at Yahoo.com or visit beantownpodcast.com Leave us a comment Where was I oh? So I decided to to to enter the lottery for this one For this year and I'll, I've entered the lottery in other years for Chicago as well. Once I did and I didn't get it. I don't know what year that was like 2018, 2017,

maybe I'm not sure. But just, you know, so you're where it is, it is a odds thing and it's definitely a lottery thing. But I, you know, with COVID and work from home, started working from home late March of 2020. And just because it didn't have access to a gym, I just decided to start running a lot. And as you might expect, in conjunction with deciding

to run a ton, not drinking at all last year, and doing pretty good with my diet, like I didn't have pizza until August, the last year, first, you know, seven plus months of the year. You know, just lost a lot of weight and running just became like a bigger part of my day to day. And I didn't even get Jim access back until like August of this year.

So it was a solid 17 months without it, whatever that math comes out to. So I just decided back in like January, whenever the lottery was open, I was like, I've been in college, 17 months without it, whatever that math comes out to. So I just decided back in like January, whenever the lottery was open, I was like, you know what, I'm in great shape. I'm consistently running, I don't know, 35 to 40 miles a week, I'm not training for an erase

or anything, it's just kind of what I have time for, which was a lot of time back then, because you couldn't really do anything else, especially in the winter in Chicago. There's not much going on. So I was like, you know what? What the hell, let's give it a shot. And then I got it and when I'll be perfectly honest,

when I got it with, when I got the news that I had been selected, I was kinda like, oh shit. Like, I have been running consistently, I think that you find it like March or something. I've been running consistently like hardcore for a full year now, which is never something I mean, even when I've been like trained for marathons in the past and remember like run that consistently for that long period of time, where I'm doing like every week without fail unless I'm injured.

Then I had the realization, you know, back in like March or whenever I found out or April whenever it was, it was like, I got to do six more months of this before I really get to, you know, rest my weary bones. And it's definitely caught up with me. I mean, my running, the past six months, actually, my overall mileage probably been a little bit less on average than what I was doing before I found out I was running the marathon. And it's just come down to two things.

One time, especially going back into the office, starting in August, it's just not as much time. I only get an hour for my lunch break. And I only had an hour before, but it's like, you know, a little bit easier to work around it. But now it's just like, it got to be back. And the other thing is just what we've been talking about,

the body. It's straight up just not holding up. It's not like I'm, you know, limping around all the time, but, you know, ask my beautiful GF Ray Chi, there'll be days on, especially Saturday afternoon to where I go for a run anywhere between like a half and 20 miles.

And I'm just straight up limping. And it's not, nothing for a show I can promise you. I am in that much, not necessarily pain, but just like inability to walk normally, if you will. So I'm really looking forward, and I have been looking forward for months now. Probably like June or July is not only when my body really started to not respond to what I was doing, but mentally, you know, the last couple months running for me has not been a super enjoyable experience. Most days it feels like a chore. Yeah, it's just like the whole, you

know, running for, you know, the first 12 months of COVID, even like 14 or 15 months, it was very much like, oh, this is my escape. Like, this is awesome. This is amazing. And then the last couple of months, it has just been like, felt like I've been trapped. So I'm really looking forward to running this race and enjoying the day, sweating my buns off, and then just stepping away for a little bit. I know myself, I know I'll be,

I know that I'm going to come back to it, probably sooner than I'm letting on, but I need a break for all those reasons I just mentioned. So I just gotta watch the diet a little bit, and not balloon up too much, and utilize my gym a little bit. I'm not balloon up too much. And utilize my gym a little bit. Maybe do some biking. Just some light workouts.

And before you know it, probably like, I don't know, early November or something, I'll be back. Test in the waters, seeing how the knee and the foot are doing. But last thing I'll say before we jump into the course, I promise, you know, talking to my cousin, Dagey, at my brother, Walt's wedding in the festivities, surrounding it, just like, I'm so,

and I had this conversation with my friend of the podcast, Megan Lundgren, as well. She was on our holiday special back in season one. And I got a drink with Megan and her partner, Tom, I think is his name. Sorry if that's incorrect. Tom, no, Megan and it's not Tom. I'm gonna think of it in a little bit.

I apologize for forgetting live on air. How embarrassing. I had a drink back in July maybe it was, where we were sharing this because Megan's a runner as well. Megan and, oh man, this is gonna kill me. I'll think of it. I'm gonna think of it, I promise.

Where I was just like, I can't wait to get through this marathon and then have it be like, oh, if I do run a half marathon on a Saturday, like that's a huge accomplishment. Cause right now, I feel like, and you know this very second two days for a marathon It's very different but the last couple months you know like 10 weeks or something It's like man if I only go out there and do 13 on a Saturday like boy you really you really shit the bed on that one And I just don't think like that's a normal

Healthy way to think but I also understand like training for a marathon and the mileage that goes into that. It's not my first rodeo. So, I just am really looking forward to getting through with this. I can run like my daily runs can be three or four miles and then if I want to do like eight to 13 on a Saturday and five time for it and if I feel up for it, like I can do that. And there's not any pressure to feel bad about it. So that's what I'm looking out for looking ahead to after this marathon. But folks, we've got a task at hand here. We have got 26.2 miles to tackle this Sunday.

Downtown Chicago, start and finish. Let's jump into the course here. And before we do that, I want to give a shout out to our sponsors, Home Pride Oregon. If you need a home inspected and central Oregon, call CIV541-010316. He'll get you taken care of Home Pride Oregon dot com. Cuts by Q, we got a new fresh cut.

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Okay, I am convinced, not convinced. I am pulling, not convinced. I am pulling my hair out. What little hair I have left that I'm trying to recall Megan's partner's name. I feel very bad. This is dead air. All right, Quinn, you're killing yourself. Well, I'll figure it out.

Let's jump into the course here. I apologize It's not Kevin. It's not Joe. It's Joe. I didn't even find it in my in my phone as I was searching through old text Megan and Joe. That's what it is. Okay. I know that, you know, all of you out there were just on the edge of your seats. Here, here for the marathon special and you're much more concerned with Can Quinn recall the name of an old friend's partner.

It's lightning, it's electric. Okay, just like my new haircut. Okay, so we're starting in finishing in Grant Park. I run there on average four times a week. I'm pretty comfortable, pretty familiar. So you get down there, the first wave leads that like 730 or something, my wave I think leads at eight, which is God awful late.

Man, I wish it was earlier in the morning because that's what I'm used to. But oh well, it is what it is. So you get down there, you do the little big drop and stuff right outside the fountain. I'm on like the south side of the Buckingham fountain. Okay, beautiful, picture-esque, good selection of porta-potties. You're gonna have to wait in line a little bit, but that's okay. Just get in line, hold your spot, it's okay. You get pretty much like, here's the good news, it's not like, oh my gosh, I gotta be ready to go when the wave leaves, because there's gonna be

like 40,000 people there. So you've got some time to figure stuff out. Your timer doesn't start until you cross the start line, okay? So not a ton of pressure. I remember feeling like very nervous and anxious. My first time around this race being like, oh my gosh, gotta get in my corral. Whoa, and then it's like, you know what? You just gotta do your thing.

Be inside your head, you know, you be like when Mayweather comes out ready for fight, like you got the beats on, your big smoking jacket, you know, Justin Bieber is behind you, Jake Paul, like hyping you up all that stuff. Like you just gotta be in the zone. Although I'll mention, running without music this year.

Excuse me, I have been training without music since April maybe, May, and I can't go back to it now. So, yeah. I've never run a marathon before without music. So it would be interesting. Okay, so you start on Columbus. That's where all this action takes place, where if you don't really know Chicago, that's

between Michigan Avenue and Lake Shore Drive. So you're pretty much on the lake, one block over. So you run along Columbus up to Grand. So that's kind of like just west of Navy Pier. So this is very like Rich White Boogie area, not a good Italian restaurant. You cut over just a hot, quick little jaunt over on Grand you're going west here.

And right before you get to state, that'll be mile number one. So it's a pretty like standard, straightforward first mile. You get to state, you're right in the heart of everything, you're right around like Cortino, that sort of thing. You go south on state and you're going all the way back down across the river, back into the loop to Jackson. Stay in Jackson is where my office is. So I'll say hi, you know, if I

need to stop and grab my honey at that point, that might be a good time to do it. Right when you hit state in Jackson, it's mild too. Okay. Click jog over on Jackson there's a 7-11 on the northwest corner of state in Jackson. I don't know if they'll have free slurpees or what the situation's gonna be but you're gonna take Jackson over to the Sal. Okay and the Sal is one block east of well so you're not quite under the train tracks at this point. Then we're taking the sale, we got a long joggeye. So we're taking it north, we're hitting the three mile mark right across the river, get to the 5K mark.

There's gonna be a lot of people out here, it's like 830 in the morning, people are jazz, people are pumped as a densely populated area. So you're gonna go up the sale past, you know, like basically go through all those rich white places until it gets a little bit more, a little bit more like neighborhood E as you get up to like North Ave and stuff and now we're starting to get more into like Lincoln Park area. So you're going to take that all the way up, you hit mile three at the river than four and then right before you

get to five, you need to sit for my T here. I'm going to do a quick jog over. Basically where you exit off lakes for a drive onto like North slash LaSalle. Around like Hotel Lincoln area, we're kind of Clark Lincoln, North, LaSalle. It's all coming together. Moody Bible Institute is kind of a congested area typically. But you're going to do a little jog over there to get on to Stockton. So essentially Stockton is like, there's two main roads that are going through like Lincoln Park South here, kind of in the area the zoo is and the

conservatory. East side you got Canon, West side you got Stockton. So you're going north on Stockton, you hit mile five, you're going past like North pond, South pond, all that stuff. The zoo could get a little bit smelly. Maybe they'll bring some of the monkeys out to cheer us on. Who knows? Uh, Davey Jones, Reston Pee. So you go up Stockton until you hit Fullerton. If you were to go straight west, you'd be right on campus where I teach on Thursday nights,

but you're jogging over it ever so slightly east. I remember I said they're, they're Stockton on the west, Canon on the east. So you're jogging over on Fullerton for a hot second to get to Canon. You're going to continue that up through kind of the Lincoln Park area. You'll hit mile six between Fullerton and diversity. You get to Canon and diversity. That is where I officially like end my long runs typically and I walk the rest of the way home. So that will be kind of a false positive there as you hit the 10 K mark.

So then you get the 10k mark. So then you get to diversity and canon. There's kind of like a seven-way intersection. It turns into Sheridan when a Chicago is most famous roads and then you're basically taking that north and Sheridan kind of merges. It's the same street but it gets labeled as interlake shore drive for a while. So you're taking that up on the eastern edge, like basically between where all the people live in Boystown

and Lake Michigan, okay? So you're taking that up, you know, past Belmont, past Addison, you can't quite see you're rigly field because the street really kind of bends, but you're gonna take that up almost all the way to Irving Park and you actually cut west, it's very confusing on another Sheridan. It's the same Sheridan, it just kind of jogs over at this point,

but you're only going to be on that for a second. So this is your top, your northernmost nexus, or terminal, or Apex, is a good way to put it, of the Chicago marathon, okay? So you're on Sheridan for a hot second. Sheridan proper turns north at that point and cuts under the red line and there's a stop actually called Sheridan, which is really just Irving Park, very confusing train stop name

because Sheridan runs for like a million miles north and south and the red line is north and south. But hey, what can you do? But before you get there, you're gonna hit mile eight as you turn south on the Broadway. So now we're going through like hardcore Boyz Town. You'll go past the Boyz Town. IHOP, you will go past the closet, which is my favorite gay bar, open to like four.

It's cash only. You can definitely want to get, going to get like a blue moon or a bud light there. But I don't, I think they'll probably be closed by this point. So it'll be like nine, 15 in the morning. You should close by like four or five. So you're taking Broadway down through through Boyz Town. You'll go, you know, just pass Rigglyfield. You won't quite be able to see it again because of the bend in the road. But maybe if you really crang your neck, you could. So you're going south on Broadway, you'll hit mile nine, kind of like between Addison and Belmont, I think,

or maybe slightly after Belmont. There's a lot of good shops, food places on Broadway, between Belmont and Diversi. You know, you got your Mariano's. That's where I go grocery shopping. You've got the Bagelery, a great place to get bagel. You've got Buena Vista. That's where Rachel and I like to get our casso fun Deto from. So, I mean, there's a lot of other stops that I can mention,

but you're taking it, you hit my own line, and then you're gonna hit Broadway and Diversi, and that's also where Clark comes in, so Broadway and Clark are merging. And that is literally about, I don't know, 400 feet from my apartment, something like that. So if I need to stop off, need to get some beef jerky or something,

or maybe do a quick software test, that would be a good place to do it. So you're gonna be running south Broadway and Clark merge at diversity You're gonna be running south on Clark back down to Fullerton this time You're a little bit closer to the Paulsland Compart campus So you can't quite see it But you know you could probably see those really expensive apartment buildings that they knocked down the children's hospital Will build so smooth move there you're gonna hit 10 miles right after you hit Fullerton And you're still on Clark and then before you get into all that, you know, we

talked about like the huge intersection where hotel Lincoln is LaSalle, Clark Lincoln, all that stuff. You're going to you're going to do a quick jog down. You're on Webster for about five paces. And then Webster, that's where like Callies is, classic to Paul bar, especially on St. Patrick's Day, Matt Mer my brother Jack there one time, he surprised me, that was very nice. You're gonna get on Sedgwick, okay. So last year when I was looking, or this last spring when I was looking for apartments,

almost tour to place on Sedgwick, it was gonna be right by the brown line stop, would be super close to downtown, even closer than I am right now, but you're going south on Sedgwick, and right before you get to that brown line stop, you're gonna hit North Ave, that's gonna be 11 miles right there.

There's a dunk in there. I've had it once or twice before. It was a very average dunk in. So really not too much to talk about there. So this is my last subatilla. That's too bad. All right, we're down to water now. Although I have a two liter of Dr. Pepper

that I got when I bought this pizza on Wednesday night in Hammond, Indiana, I believe it or not. So you're gonna quickly jaunt East. Jaunt, is that a word? I don't know. Is it a verb? I think it's a word. I'm not sure about its verbular tendencies though.

The-e-r-b-u-l-a-r. You're gonna jaunt East slightly on North Ave as if you're going out to the North Ave Beach, castaways, beautiful restaurant, you know, it's built to look like a ship, but we're not actually going there. Because pretty quickly you're going to hit South, head south on Wells Street, okay. Now here we're getting back into these rich neighborhoods. You're going to run right past Walter Payton Prep School, great man at school in Chicago.

And eventually, you're taking Wells a long way south, okay? You're gonna hit mile 12. We're taking this all the way past the river. You're gonna be running under the L tracks, like where Merch nice, Mart is, for a hot second, you step its own zip code. That was pretty cool. Right when you cross the river,

you're gonna be on upper whacker. You're gonna take a quick jog to the west, running along the river. Ever so slightly, then you are going to had south. Is that still, no, whatever the block, it's not labeled here, which doesn't make any sense. Whatever one block west of Wells is sort of between the loop and the river,

you're gonna be running on that. I don't know what street that is, but you're doing it. And so you're going to take that until you hit to Monroe. So we ran Jackson earlier. This is Monroe. This is two blocks north of Jackson. You go to Palmer House. There are many entrances on Monroe Street. So here's where, you know, kind of the party's over. And I'll mention right after you cross the river on Upper Wackard Drive, that's when you're hitting the half marathon mark. Okay. So that's when it's like, this was a lot of fun, had a nice time. Oh shit, things are

about to get serious. So between 13 and 14, you hit the halfway mile. Now we're going west on Monroe. You cross the river, you're basically going to be running by like Union Station, Ogleby, that sort of thing. You get into the west loop speaking of very rich neighborhoods. You do a quick jog over like literally one block south. You hit the 14 mile or mark and then you're on Adams and now we're taking that all the way west out to Damon, which is 2000 west. Remember in Chicago 800 on the street signs means one mile. So we're going all the way out west, you hit the 15 mile mark. You're on Damon for a hot second. You're literally just

going one block south. The United Center will be just off to your right. You're on Damon for a hot second, you're literally just going one block south, the United Senate will be just off to your right, you should be able to see it. And then you're turning back around. So now we're going back east on Jackson Boulevard, you hit mile 16, you'll hit mile 17 until you're basically getting to a halt stood straight. So now we're going to run kind of around the UIC area, you have to go up and over the interstate. What is that, 290 out there? Yeah, you got all the hospitals, you got all the UIC and stuff. So you're on, you're on halt set. And here's where I get very unfamiliar with the course. Everything up until now, I know it like the back of my hand.

But now we got a, you're cutting down south on halt set between miles 17 and 18. Now you're going to go west on Taylor Street. I don't know anything about Taylor Street, little Italy. There was a little Italy in Baltimore, but it wasn't really a thing. So you hit mile 18,

and then you're in university village, so that's kinda like UIC area. Then you take that to Luma Street. I never even heard a Luma Street before, and you're taking that south until you hit, or you'll hit mile 19 and then you're gonna you're gonna get to sort of just east of Pilsen kind of on the eastern edge there you hit 18th street so if you ever gone to a concert at Talia Hall or anything that's 18th Street. So you're

gonna run that east until you get back on a hallstead so you're kind of just doing a little jog over because we're coming right back over to Hallstead. You you're kind of just doing a little jog over because we're coming right back over to a hallstead. You're gonna hit mile 20. This is where you're really gonna be in pain. So now you are running south just for a hot second until you hit this kind of diagonal boy. And then you're doing this very strange shape here, kind of like a half triangle.

And then all of a sudden boom, you run back east on Sermack, great name. Until you cross the South branch of the Chicago River. And this is very like industrial, Chinatown, China. And after you hit that river, you're going to hit mile 21. Okay. So now we got 5.2 left.

Things are really getting serious, probably pretty hot here. Then you're going east until you hit Wentworth Avenue. I don't really know anything about Wentworth Avenue, but you run that for a little ways because you're now running south kind of on the eastern edge of Chinatown, just south of like South Loop area near South Side. And now we're getting more into like McCormick area, where I'll be going in a little bit here today. You'll hit mile 22 and then you go down to 33rd. So I think you're running like a long the interstate at this point, where like 94 and 90 come in,

although I'm not quite sure, maybe it's not quite accurate. I don't completely recall. But I think that's right. And then you're gonna jog over the top of the interstate at 33rd. So if you know the White Sock Stadium that's 35th, we're not gonna quite hit that, but you'll probably be able to see it off in the distance.

It's only a quarter mile south where you're jogging over east on 33rd until you hit state street, okay? That's zero east, zero west, and then you're going to briefly jog south on state street to get to 35th. So they don't want you to go and pass the Whitesock Stadium, but we're still getting to 35th as you jog south on state to get down to 35th. It's just a quarter mile. It's 200. Remember, you'll hit mile 23 and then you have the long slog back. Okay, so you're on 35th for a hot second, then you're gonna cut north. You're gonna go past Michigan Ave. Actually, before you, you cut north on Indiana and then you're gonna do a slight diagonal up to Michigan Ave. You'll hit 24 miles at that diagonal,

and then from there, it is just sprint, okay? Mile 24 up to mile 26, basically, it's just a straight shot north on Michigan Ab, it's two miles, it's really painful. You'll go past McCormick Place, you'll be coming into the South Loop, you'll hit Roosevelt, and then there's the biggest hill in the entire city of Chicago, it's brutal.

As you're going up the hill, you hit 26.2. You turn north on Columbus and you run to the finish line at 26.2. And then you probably pass out from heat stroke. So I have that to look forward to. Folks, that is your 2021 Chicago. Oh, it got a label at Bank of America. Chicago Mar marathon. Yeah, I think that's pretty much the same course it was

when I ran it. I think it's gonna be fun. It's gonna be tough. No ifs ands buts around it. But hopefully, hopefully see some people I know. TBD, I think Rachel will be out there, so that would be good. And just pray for this knee, pray for this foot. And yeah, my bib number in case you're curious,

I think I have it saved on my phone as a picture, because I have to have it to go pick up my packet later. Bib number 24 105 start corral assignment F is infernice. They wanted to put me up with the gold wave, which is like two or five and stuff, and I said, hey, I got a knee injury or else I'd be up there. What are you gonna do?

So that's what I got for you. I hope you enjoyed our marathon special. I know I had a fun time going, you know, kind of mile zero to 26.2 with you there, but I also tell you that I am a little parched. My throat is very sore and I'm just feeling a little tired probably because I'm sick. So I hope you enjoyed that the Chicago Bank of America, Chicago Marathon 2021 will kick off at about 7.30 a.m. Central time on Sunday, October 10th, and hope to see you there. That's what I got for you. From all of us here at the bean town podcast, beantownpodcast.com, one of the top 500 podcasts in Northside, Chicago. Thank you everyone for listening. I hope you have a great weekend.

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