Chicago ... it's MY kind of town!

Well here I am in Chicago ... the day after the Chicago marathon and I'm stiff and sore but happy!

The bus ride down was 9 hours but passed fairly quickly. I was (not surprisingly chatting with lots of the folks on the bus.) We got in to Chicago around 4 pm. and at 5:30 went to the Expo. It was really quick picking up race kits and goodies / freebies galore.

I also got my body composition done on a new Tanita Ironman scale and it's going on my fridge! It said my wt 143.8 (with jeans at 7 pm), lean muscle mass 110 lbs., 54.4% water, and then it gave a body composition rating between 1-9 and I got 8!!!!! It also told me that my "metabolic age" was 15 ... not too bad for a 42yr old!

I was rooming with Brenda who I met on the bus and my friend Carolyn from Virginia. We had a great time. Kind of like having a pyjama party! On Saturday we spend wandering around downtown Chicago. We spent a bit too much time on our feet but heck. We saw the Hilton, walked along Michigan avenue and loved seeing al the buildings ... great architecture and went to Marshall Fields.

I met up with SB but missed Brynne (I know both of them from the www.weightwatchers.ca bulletin boards. We also found out that marathon finishers can get into the Chicago BLackhawks game FREE tonite! So it was a toss up ... NHL or post-race party!

Shuffle and I are both started out with the 5:45 bunny ... We stayed with Colleen who was wonderful and doing a 2R/4W until 25 miles and then sped up to come in at 5:42:08 for an overall place of 30,570 out of approx 34,000 ... I'm pretty pleased 'coz I trained for a 6:00 finish and came in 18 mins faster!!!!!

I'll post more about the race later ... IT WAS A BLAST!!!

Gotta go ... the bus is leaving in 1/2 an hour!

Ciao for now!


~ Shirley