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Detroit Free Press International Half Marathon October 15th, 2017 Detroit, MI 13.1 This year was the 40th running of the Detroit Free Press Chemical Bank Series, and my first time running the race. I found out about the run back when I worked at the running store and had seen a flyer about it. Of course, I was curious, and had to look it up. When I found out that it crossed international borders, I had to run it. So, last year, when I was visiting my friend in Ann Arbor, I drunkenly made the agreement to run this with her the following year. Fast forward to 2017, I signed up with my sister and my friend, and we got to running it. Here are my thoughts and experiences. Me and the Sister pre-race. Overall, this was a great race. Just going to start there. When you begin, you start early, so when we began, it was dark out. It was also windier than ever, but that was not something that was under our control. To be honest, we were nervous as they were saying there w...

Hey everyone! So I know I fell off the grid for a while, but I am trying my best to be back in the swing of things. My life has been busier than ever but things are finally slowing down and, hopefully, I will get back to where I was with updating everyone with races and the monthly calendars. Again, I apologize for stopping everything and losing touch, it was tough coming back after the second leg surgery, and after healing up from that, I had a wedding to finish up with, (yep, I got married), then work got a little hectic. But, like I said, things have calmed down enough to where I can get back to writing a monthly calendar and my legs are back to normal (I can feel my toes/feet/legs when I run!), so I will be running more races! After my wedding, I did run another half, crossing another state off my list, so you guys can expect a review of that soon. I do need some help, however; I am looking for at least 2 more halves to do next year, and I want to cross off a couple new state...