Awkward and Fugly Race Photos & a 13.1 Winner

It's been 3 days since the Shamrock Shuffle 8k and life is slowly returning back into my legs. Monday morning I could barely bend over to reach my toes and think that I got a small lick of what it will feel like to live inside my body when I'm 90.

Received an email yesterday that my "race photos" from Sunday were ready for my viewing. I don't photograph well while running, but I thought that I would take at peek at the overpriced photos that I wasn't going buy anyhow.

After this fugly race photo from 2010:

Chicago Marathon 2010

I pretty much gave up any expectation of great action shots years ago. Running and beauty apparently just do not go together for me.

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Like I mentioned the other day, Sunday's race is kind of all a blur in my mind. There are few things that I remember after my legs pumped out that 5:42  2nd mile, but after seeing this pic I remembered something else... that I ran up the 400 foot incline in the last half mile with my eyes closed. Why? Who the heck knows, but chances are likely that at the time my mind was going to great lengths to make that finish line appear as quick as possible.

When I look at that photo above the only thing that pops into mind is "I think I can. I think I can. I think I can."

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I'm also super cool where no matter how much pain I am in upon crossing the finish line, the first thought that crosses my mind will always be "must...stop...garmin...".

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Race day support crew

I also like to play ballerina as my pre-race ritual apparently.

And make cool faces at the Millennium Park Bean.

Without further ado, the randomly selected winner of the Chicago 13.1 Marathon giveaway is...

Congrats Michel! Looks like we will be taking to the Chicago 13.1 Marathon course on June 9th together! Email me at chicagorunnergirl@gmail.com and I'll get you in contact with the race organizers for your free entry.

Alright time to air your dirty laundry folks...

We've all got them, those fugly race photos that seem to capture the true glory of race day. Who wants to trump my Chicago Marathon 2010 fuglyness? Think you've got a real winner email me at chicagorunnergirl@gmail.com to be part of a fugly race photo posting.