This is a solid cold-weather half marathon on the lakefront during the month of January when there aren't a lot of long races going on. But F^3 (affiliated with Universal Sole) goes beyond the cold weather gimmick and delivers a good race on a well-organized course. But this is not a race to under-train for - you don't want to find yourself walking along the Lakeshore Trail in January.

Here's the write-up I put on my blog after running this one:
http://www.zachrunschicago.com/2013/01/f3-lake-half-and-abominable-snowmanyeti.html