Matt Brusich has raised more than $11,000 for Lincoln Park Community Services. And now he’s free to be a spectator during the best day of the year in the Windy City.
When Matt Brusich first told his wife and his family he was going to run a marathon the day before the Chicago Marathon, on a single block around his Chicago apartment building, no one really batted an eye. This was Matt being Matt. He’s known for various hijinks: theme dinner parties, award ceremonies at the end of the year in various categories, such as “best group hang,” “best family hang,” and “best workout.
Why go to the trouble of course certification? “Go big or go home,” he told Runner’s World. On race day, October 12, Brusich, 36, who works in IT, started at about 10:30 a.m., “following the morning’s BM,” according to the race website he put together. Dozens of family members and friends turned out to cheer him on, some stopping by for a little while, others staying the whole day. His parish priest showed up to give a blessing at the race’s start. A local TV news crew made a stop.
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