Hello everybody and welcome to a special episode of Amy and

T.J coming to you from the Abbott Health Expo at the McCormick Center in downtown Chicago.

Hello everybody I'm CJ Holmes.

And I'm Amy Roboc and we're very excited to be here with thousands of runners in this

weekend's Chicago Marathon so it's very exciting I love Expo Centers I love the energy of everyone all the training is done

months and months of preparation has been underway and now we are finally here

marathon weekend And now we are finally here, Marathon Weekend.

And for our listeners, you can hear a lot of background noise.

We are in the Expo Center where some 50,000 runners

have to come through to pick up their packets. And so the main stage we're sitting at to give you some perspective is

at the exit. So we're the last thing people see on their way out of the

Expo Center but we should remind folks, yes, we're a long time journalist,

but how many half marathons do you have under your belt ropes?

I tried to do the count, official half marathons. I believe I have six.

Half marathons. How many marathons? I have five full marathons.

And what were they? I ran Chicago in 2022. I ran New York in 2019, 2022 and 2021 and

2021 and 2021 and Then Berlin 2021

Okay now I will tell folks this is something I didn't know

But you said it's possible that Chicago 2024 will be your last

marathon you said that to me last night and I was surprised to hear it myself I did

it's a lot. All the folks here in this incredible expo center know how much work. It is a second full-time job to

train for a marathon. It takes almost half a year and it takes a lot out of you.

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