Detroit International Half Marathon
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...