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102 counties in Illinois
Prairie State Runner blog on running in all 102 Illinois counties
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It is my goal to run a race in all 102 counties in Illinois. I'm 46 and would like to achieve this goal before I am 60. If, as I near the end of my goal, I find some counties without official races, I will run my own 10k in the county seat. Read more »
Submitted by daj on 15 April 2013 - 7:14pm
Bureau County
On an absolutely perfect day for running I ran in today's Conquer the Hill Half Marathon in Princeton, Illinois in Bureau County. What a good race! Read more »
Submitted by daj on 28 April 2013 - 7:30am
Clark County
Second Place! It has a certain ring to it, doesn’t it? You have to be good to come in second place and today I came in second place in the first annual Race for the Heart 5k in Marshall, Illinois the county seat of Clark County. Read more »
Submitted by daj on 13 April 2013 - 7:54pm
Carroll County
No more snow! There I said it. It is February 23 and I am saying no to snow. Well ok, we are in the middle of an extended drought so I wouldn't mind some more snow this winter. Read more »
Submitted by daj on 28 February 2013 - 9:14am
2012 in review
Well 2012 is history. It was not my greatest year ever for running, but it did have its moments, as I seek to run a race in each of Illinois' 102 counties. Read more »
Submitted by daj on 30 December 2012 - 10:46pm
Pope County - River to River Relay
The last section of the eighty mile River to River Relay that I ran in today was the 24th and final leg of the race. It was a 3.3 mile section of the race and it was in Pope County. Read more »
Submitted by daj on 4 December 2012 - 10:54pm
Alexander County
Approximately 375 miles south of Chicago and geographically farther south than Richmond, Virginia is Cairo, Illinois, the county seat of tiny Alexander County and the southernmost tip of the state of Read more »
Submitted by daj on 11 November 2012 - 8:55am
Schuyler County
Today was the first day of fall and it felt like it this morning in Rushville, as I ran in the first annual Schuyler County Health Department Smiles Day 5K. Read more »
Submitted by daj on 22 September 2012 - 4:58pm
Randolph County - Popeye Race
He's Popeye the Sailor Man and he has a very nice 5K run and festival held in his honor in downstate Chester, Illinois, the home of Popeye's creator Elzie Crisler Segar. Read more »
Submitted by daj on 8 September 2012 - 8:01pm
