I'm going to an academic conference Dec 27-30 and will be holed up at The Fairmont in downtown Chicago. Where do I run? (8-15 miler). One criterion is softer surfaces, if possible. Gravelly stuff next to a paved surface such as a pedestrian walkway is fine with me.
Help.
Take the lakefront path and head south. Once you get by Soldier Field (about 1.5 miles) there will be a gravel path next to the paved path for the majority of the trail. However, with the current weather conditions (50 degrees yesterday, melting the snow, followed by 15 degrees this morning) the trail is probably covered in ice. Hopefully things will be better by next weekend.
If you go north you do an actual loop instead of an out and back. Go over to state street - take that north through the gold coast to Lincoln park. There is a crushed gravel path that goes past the zoo and doesn't divert you to the east side of Lakeshore until almost Belmont. Then you can take the path on the east side of the LSD to Navy pier - and make your way back to columbus via Illinois.
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Just run east onto Lake Michigan at Grant Park. You will see the ice fishing lanes marked with old Christmas trees and you'll see a few cars out there too. Hardly any traffic and you get half your run likely wind aided.
Another fishing lane entrance just south of Soldier Field.
Look up USA Running Routes on USATF's site.
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