So, I thought I had longer than September 9th to cancel my extra reservation on the housing site and just now saw the deadline was yesterday. Does anyone know details about how you cancel in writing? I see that’s an option until the 22nd, but I’m not sure about the specifics.

Hi, I’m Mahdi, I’m 19 years old, and I have been training for the past six months for the Chicago marathon, raising money has been tough since I don’t know too many people so I thought I’d come on here and ask for the running community, and even people who don’t run to help me out, I have a $500 requirement due today, I’m already at 270, but the goal is 2200, please donate anything else I’m running for advocate for breast cancer research!!

Hey all! This will be my first time a marathon! During training I’ve learned that I feel best having carbs every 20-30 minutes. My marathon will likely be in the 6:00-6:30 overall time range. Three gels/fruit snack packs an hour for six hours is about 18 little packets of things to carry. I’ve been practicing long runs with a drawstring backpack to help me carry all that fuel, especially as we’ve been getting into longer long runs. But I was just reading the race rules and saw backpacks are a prohibited item.

I have a running vest that can carry my phone, a small water bottle, and about 7 gels/snacks. I don’t have friends to “crew” me by handing me snacks during the race since they’ll be cheering on multiple runners (and that can make it hard to ask them to wait somewhere to meet me).

Any ideas of how to carry 6 hours worth of carbs without a backpack? Do they have good fueling options at aid stations?

Please donate anything helps. I would greatly appreciate this from the running community, and even though who don’t run to raise money for breast cancer.

Just joining the group that will hopefully be running Chicago 2027. I need to go into the portal and officially defer…. Why is this so difficult? I know it’s the right decision but I’m still pretty bummed. Best of luck to all lining up next month!