• Chicago,
    Illinois,
    United States
  • March
  • 5 miles/8K
  • Road Race
  • Event Website

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Celebrating 40 years! Get ready to go green and get your Irish on at the 40th annual Bank of America Shamrock Shuffle on Sunday, March 24. Don't miss your chance to participate in a one-of-a-kind celebration through the streets of Chicago.

Tim Murphy

Portland, Oregon, United States
275 54
2009
"It was COLD and WET"
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Tim Murphy's thoughts:

So - my review is a bit skewed, but I'll explain my rationale.

The year I did the Shamrock Shuffle was freezing. Actually, it was not cold enough to be snow, so that meant rain, which made it feel even colder. It was like 30 degrees and raining, so there was ice everywhere. I know this is totally not the race's fault - but man, it was cold. That beer at the end I was so looking forward to? Wanted nothing to do with it - couldn't feel my hands.

So - given that my experience was SOMEWHAT anomalous (it's March in Chicago, this race is almost always going to be pretty cold), here's why I wouldn't recommend this race. Because of the weather, when I did it, there were only like 15K participants. It felt crowded, but manageable.

There are usually 30,000+ runners in this race. That's CRAZY.

For an 8K, where the field doesn't have that much distance to disperse, it is just too big and it stays crowded the whole way. They let too many people run and the race suffers. I don't recommend.

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