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Not everything is bigger than Texas.

Chicago has a bigger skyline than Dallas and Houston put together (and that's big)

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Also have a lot more people walking in downtown!

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If people in Dallas did this, they would be off the top 10 of "Fattest US Cities"!

About 40,000 (it doesn't get bigger) will run in one of the five greatest Marathons in the world this October. A fast maration as it has no hills. This year is booked up, but if you enter next year, you can get tips from www.halhigdon.com (http://www.halhigdon.com) - a "hypermiler" in his own right (completed at least 111 marathons 26.2 * 111 = 2,908.2 miles :eek: )

No hills - I'd get good milage at night when the lights are right....


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I went around and around to get good pictures of the talles US skyscraper - the Sears Tower (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears_tower)

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Later, I'll post the night pictures, but they were not near as good as these.

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This light rail remined me of a scene in Batman Begins.

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I think this is the Museum next to Soldier Field

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Really wanted to get a good look of Lake Michigan.

Why don't they have a race *up* the fire-stairs of the Sears
tower? That'd be a challenge. Or make it a triathlon, you run
up inside, pop out on the roof and get issued a hang-glider,
make it to the farthest-out of a series of bouys in the lake as
you can where someone else will fish the glider out of the water,
and swim back to shore. Oughta be a nice workout..
.
_H*

Hi Chuck:

___I love those pics given this is my hood! Well, maybe not mine exactly as I am ~ 45 miles North but I still call it home.

___In the last 2 pics (#9 and #10), You were traveling down the infamous Lake Shore Drive south bound heading towards the Field Museum before the sweeping right hander. If most look closely at Chuck’s pics of the museum in #9, they might be able to make out the King Tut Exhibit banner hanging across the entryway of the Field Museum. I wish you could have had the opportunity to take LSD (Lake Shore Drive) at night as the city itself projects a spectacular light show …

___The next time you visit, we will head up to the top of the Sears Tower Skydeck or even the John Hancock observatory. Best city views in the world at dusk imho along with Millennium Park and Navy Pier being the world class attractions that they are.

___Hobbit, the John Hancock does have a race up the tower every year called appropriately “Hustle up the Hancock”. Always attracts the media although I don’t think it is nearly the challenge of the Chicago marathon ;)

9 minutes and 39 seconds for the 94 floors is the world record according to the press releases I just looked up. I wonder if Chuck would be interested in that competition?

OfficeMax Hustle Up the Hancock (http://hustle2006.kintera.org/faf/home/default.asp?ievent=140068&lis=1&kntae140068=9629985276664019866CA2A52B3C0AA4)

___Good Luck

___Wayne

Why don't they have a race *up* the fire-stairs of the Sears
tower? That'd be a challenge. Or make it a triathlon, you run
up inside, pop out on the roof and get issued a hang-glider,
make it to the farthest-out of a series of bouys in the lake as
you can where someone else will fish the glider out of the water,
and swim back to shore. Oughta be a nice workout..
.
_H*

Sounds like an idea!

This is a work in progress as I took at least 300 pictures on the HybridFest trip!

I tripod might have reduced some of the blur, but some of these pictures might be OK. Some will say the blur is the "warp signatures". :p

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If you make this one out, you will find out what I'm drafting... :p
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Starting to move behind him....

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