Re: Ready for Chicago Registration?

mountandog Thu Feb 02, 2012 11:58 am

any idea if you can tell how fast registration is filling up?

fostever Thu Feb 02, 2012 12:29 pm

mountandog wrote:any idea if you can tell how fast registration is filling up?

FAST

fostever Thu Feb 02, 2012 12:33 pm

IN. This is a no-brainer for me. Great to have a marathon major in my back yard. Bus to train to start and my running association's compound blocks from the start.

mountandog Thu Feb 02, 2012 12:44 pm

ok - I guess I will sign up. If I eat $150 so be it. Won't be the first $$ I've wasted in my life. I have a free place to stay downtown with some relatives.

Michele "1L" Keane Thu Feb 02, 2012 1:17 pm

I'm not running, but I did book a hotel - so my hubby and I will be there to enjoy the weekend. I love to party at a marathon I'm not running Wink

. (And I'll pace anyone as a bandit through 13)

JohnP Thu Feb 02, 2012 4:26 pm

Chris M wrote:
JohnP wrote:Well, I'm in as well, and hope it won't be an expensive training run. I am also toying with the idea of a target November race this year, something I've never done.

Join me in the Chicago-Philly double? My cut off is 49 degrees. That or cooler and it is 'A' race. Otherwise, LSD run and Philly becomes the goal.

I am definitely thinking about this. I've done Philly three times and PR'd each one, it's a great race.

JohnP Thu Feb 02, 2012 4:28 pm

mountandog wrote:any idea if you can tell how fast registration is filling up?

Assuming it is accurate, so far over 25,000 registrations are in the system.

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mountandog Thu Feb 02, 2012 4:53 pm

JohnP wrote:
mountandog wrote:any idea if you can tell how fast registration is filling up?

Assuming it is accurate, so far over 25,000 registrations are in the system.

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so how did you figure that out?

Dave-O Thu Feb 02, 2012 5:52 pm

mountandog wrote:
JohnP wrote:
mountandog wrote:any idea if you can tell how fast registration is filling up?

Assuming it is accurate, so far over 25,000 registrations are in the system.

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so how did you figure that out?

Use % in the search field?

I actually haven't signed up. I think I need a year off from Chicago.

Admin Thu Feb 02, 2012 6:17 pm

Dave, this is the year... Perfect weather on a gorgeous early October day! Post-race festivities and celebration of all the shiny new PRs!

Sure, you can skip this year... but it will be the year you wish you'd raced... 2:2X for you... 2:4X for me...

Michele "1L" Keane Thu Feb 02, 2012 6:25 pm

Dave-O - the only way to get the monkey off your back is to go back and kill it. Sign up!!!

JohnP Thu Feb 02, 2012 10:24 pm

We should not pressure Dave-O on this race. He will have much better luck weather-wise with a later fall marathon.

Nick Morris Thu Feb 02, 2012 10:49 pm

Highest first day registration ever...

Admin Thu Feb 02, 2012 11:09 pm

JohnP wrote:We should not pressure Dave-O on this race. He will have much better luck weather-wise with a later fall marathon.

And that's all it is, luck. No guarantees on any race. A later fall race could be an ice storm, high winds, locust, 4 horsemen of the apocolypse, etc... it's a crap-shoot.

Dave needs pressure to perform. What turns coal into a diamond? I'm in for 2:4X this year. Game on!

Cool

GregC Fri Feb 03, 2012 12:34 am

Dave isn't registering because he wants that pressure of the sub 1:11 half on him so he qualifies for the dev-elite corral and late registration. He's a little warped.

Admin Fri Feb 03, 2012 12:37 am

GregC wrote:Dave isn't registering because he wants that pressure of the sub 1:11 half on him so he qualifies for the dev-elite corral and late registration. He's a little warped.

JohnP Fri Feb 03, 2012 10:34 am

Mr MattM wrote:
JohnP wrote:We should not pressure Dave-O on this race. He will have much better luck weather-wise with a later fall marathon.

And that's all it is, luck. No guarantees on any race. A later fall race could be an ice storm, high winds, locust, 4 horsemen of the apocolypse, etc... it's a crap-shoot.

Dave needs pressure to perform. What turns coal into a diamond? I'm in for 2:4X this year. Game on!

Chances of an ice storm, high winds, locust, 4 horsemen < 1% (well, maybe more for the winds)
Chances of a warm Chicago > 80%

dot520 Sat Feb 04, 2012 9:09 pm

I'm in! Hotel was booked last November.

Dave-O Mon Feb 06, 2012 10:36 pm

GregC wrote:Dave isn't registering because he wants that pressure of the sub 1:11 half on him so he qualifies for the dev-elite corral and late registration. He's a little warped.

I actually like this thought process. Warped, indeed.

Nick Morris Mon Feb 06, 2012 11:39 pm

Dave-O wrote:
GregC wrote:Dave isn't registering because he wants that pressure of the sub 1:11 half on him so he qualifies for the dev-elite corral and late registration. He's a little warped.

I actually like this thought process. Warped, indeed.

It's pretty good motivation...

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