Get a leg up on marathon training (Chicago Sun-Times)

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010 at 9:02 am

I don’t remember what now, but something prompted me to volunteer at the 2006 Chicago Marathon. I had never watched a marathon, didn’t have any runner friends, nor had I even run much more than four or five miles at that point — barely that. My “assignment” was working the gear check tent pre-race, which meant getting to Grant Park at 5 a.m. on a blustery, rainy morning, and helping hundreds of …