Signed up for the Chicago Marathon yet? Thinking about it?
Well, it’s going to set you back $110. That’s ‘one hundred ten dollars and 00/cents’, in case you’re writing a check.
We’ve finished over twenty marathons, but never once had to pay more than 100 clams for the privilege of hearing somebody else’s family scream ‘you look great’ when you know you really, really don’t. Last year it cost $90 to run around Chicago in October… so why the inflation? With 45,000 participants coughing up that much, what gives?
Who knows…
Perhaps the organizers will impress us all on race day… but for starters, the race shirt better be made of some technical, space-age material that wicks away moisture at subatomic levels. If we find an XXXL, white cotton, short-sleeved ‘Beefy-T’ with a one-color logo designed by a 10-year old in the race packet, there’s going to be a riot.
Just sayin’!
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For serious. For that kind of money, I want a S.W.A.T team boxing me in for the last 2.2 miles spraying machine-gun fire in my wake at anyone telling me "I'm almost there". Or to be more accurate, the people at mile 19 telling me "I'm almost there". Long live the Cranky Runner.
Amen, sister. Testify!
Justify your guilt by looking at the big piture: if you run an 8.5 mm and run 7 miles each hour, then its only costing you $29.40 per hour! Where else can you get that kind of a deal? A hour of fun for under thirty dollars!!
Leave it to R.B. to give us a 'glass half-full' perspective.
Then again, sitting in the hotel with an ice cream sundae from room service probably costs less than thirty dollars!
But you're right after all. I'll still have to remind myself not to bring up all the $29.40-an-hour 'fun' we're having during miles 20-26.2!
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