Saturday July 15th, I had my early flight from Houston to Chicago arriving on time for the amazing packet pick Up in a very cool place in Chicago. Bad luck!! and I got stuck all the Saturday at Houston airport because of a storm day. Of course, looking on IG all the cool pictures of the runners who could make it and were getting their BIB's.
I contacted from the airport to Rock N' Roll Series explaining my problem, and felt so calm down when they answered me telling me "you can get your BIB tomorrow before the race, get there very early". I could finally arrived to Chicago in the night, very tired but excited to run in one of my favorite cities.
Sunday July 16, I woke up so early, just wanted to get there to Millennium Park area and get my BIB and have my mind all set and ready to run that Half Marathon. And I did, I really think I was the first runner to arrive ha ha Got my BIB!! Was very fresh for me, was going to be a very cloudy day, but wasn't ready for that "windy cold" early morning, anyway was excited and ready to go!!
This race will be always special for me because I met in person, took a selfie and told her "I love you, you're inspiration" to the amazing KATHRINE SWITZER yesssss I gave a hug to this legend, was looking for her all my time before the race, in that moment and felt so energized and happy, just wanted to start my RUN, I had all the real inspiration energy from a legend like her!!
Fresh run, amazing, crazy and fun bands all over ( I have very cool videos) the weather was JUST perfect, when the Sun was up with that fresh wind hitting you in front, was amazing, the people around cheering up, the beautiful landscapes of this beautiful city, the architectures, the details, the flowers decorating the city, all that cool music and runners cheering others. I always say I am the MOST distracted runner ha ha it's true! check my IG account to see all the pictures during the race and videos, and more to come, I can'e have enough of this wonderful and amazing organization of Rock N' Roll Series, everything was just perfect and highly recommend to set this Beautiful city and race for your Runs Calendar in 2018. As a plus, the Start and Finish Line is in the amazing Millennium Park area, of course.... Can be anything better that just finished your race and take a picture in front of the Bean ( Cloud) with your medal?? I enjoyed so much, all the picture are great because they have so cool decoration, I'm adding some cool pictures here but again, check my IG account ( tropicalfruit_runner) because shared some but always I'm sharing good motivation quotes with my races pictures.
THANK YOU ROCK N' SERIES for this experience, for your support in the distance and please: Keep the amazing organization and hard work, we, the runners, really appreciate it! See you soon guys, may be in San Antonio TX on December.
Carolina Muriel
Houston Runner
