We arrived in Chicago on the Friday night, spent a night near the airport then moved to our city location on the Saturday morning.

We headed to the race expo early in the afternoon to pick up my race pack and have a look around. Wow, this expo is serious compared to the ‘large’ races back home which are usually in tents outside.

This one is in a hall at the convention centre.

The queues were nice and short so I picked up my race bib and shirt and had a walk around all the exhibitors. I may have purchased another shirt… They had samples of the race day hydration drinks.