Chicago Half Marathon

Chicago Half Marathon

Chicago Half Marathon

( 56 reviews )
82% of reviewers recommend this race
  • Chicago,
    Illinois,
    United States
  • September
  • 3 miles/5K, 13.1 miles/Half Marathon
  • Road Race
  • Event Website

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2015
"Great fast and flat course, the rest is a joke"
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Removed User's thoughts:

The Chicago Half Marathon is a great fast, flat race that is mostly ran on Lake Shore Drive. Just running on LSD is amazing it self and is the only reason why I ran this race and would ever tell another runner to run this race. The organization, or LACK of it, is embarrassing. My husband and I signed up for the race in June 2015, were happy to have the option of a shuttle bus to the site of the race in Jackson Park, where there is little to NO parking at all, so we enthusiastically signed up for the shuttle service from the Belmont El. La la la, training ensues, happy summer and we start getting emails regarding the race, shuttle service is still on, park hero is available for people to use to purchase parking, all is good. About a week prior to the expo and packet pick up, we get an email stating we are now in the millennium park shuttle pick up, no way, didn't sign up for it. I promptly emailed back, we had signed up for Belmont, please honor it. We get another email 1-2 days later saying that the shuttles are FULL, no changes will be made, done! After paying over $75 bucks a piece for this run and a shuttle, I was NOT happy. Long story short, and I could go on and on, we ended up not being able to use the shuttle, metra brought us to and from the race and the medal is ridiculously huge. The after party was a joke, the line to check IDs was over 40 deep with 2 people checking them and I will never run this race again nor recommend it. I am once again disappointed that this race was CARA certified, is CARA going down hill??? Take your money and run another half.

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