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Philip Crowther
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International Affiliate Correspondent for @AP. Reporting in six languages from around the world. From Luxembourg. Citizen of 🇪🇺 but also 🇱🇺🇩🇪🇬🇧🇺🇸
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Polls have now closed in Michigan. Here’s the scene at the Democratic Party election night event in Detroit. Abdul El-Sayed expected on stage here later.
Rapper Common and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren join Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed on stage at his election eve rally in Detroit.
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I promise to only ask for your hard-earned cash once a year. That moment is here again.
This will be my fourth Chicago Marathon, bringing the event to the threshold of an annual tradition. I now know what to expect: the months of training all over the world, the fear of niggling injuries, the panic of not getting to the starting line because of road closures around Grant Park. Then the exuberance of the cheering crowds. Though none of them, bar my own family, are actually cheering me on specifically, it is the closest - as a fellow runner told me - us amateurs can possibly get to feeling like a professional athlete. Then comes the long stretch South when the crowds thin out and the legs start screaming and the devil on my shoulder tells me to walk, if only for just a little bit. At the end there will hopefully again be the satisfaction of finishing a marathon and raising funds for a worthy cause in my dad's name.
The truth is that one of my life ambitions used to be to never run a marathon. But times have changed, and now I associate this event with my dad. On the day of the 2026 Chicago Marathon it'll be almost exactly three years to the day since my dad died from cancer. While he thought running for hours on end was silly, bad for your health, and his idea of hell (his words), he did approve of my fundraising efforts. The first year for La Casa Norte and homeless youth and families in the Chicago area. The last two years for the American Cancer Society, appropriately enough. This year I am again raising funds for the most worthy of charities considering my dad's many brushes with this terrible disease, and, ultimately, his demise.
I am still not kidding myself: I don't really believe in "beating cancer". But I do believe in making a dent. Please help me in doing so with a donation toward my lofty (and prescribed) goal of $2500. The funds I'm raising will sustain critical research and provide services for people trying to cope with their cancer experience.
Running, meanwhile, is a coping mechanism. It keeps me going. So here it is, my fourth Chicago Marathon. (Still trying to finish in under 4 hours.)
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This will be my fourth Chicago Marathon, bringing the event to the threshold of an annual tradition. I now know what to expect: the months of training all over the world, the fear of niggling injuries, the panic of not getting to the starting line because of road closures around Grant Park. Then the exuberance of the cheering crowds. Though none of them, bar my own family, are actually cheering me on specifically, it is the closest - as a fellow runner told me - us amateurs can possibly get to feeling like a professional athlete. Then comes the long stretch South when the crowds thin out and the legs start screaming and the devil on my shoulder tells me to walk, if only for just a little bit. At the end there will hopefully again be the satisfaction of finishing a marathon and raising funds for a worthy cause in my dad's name.
The truth is that one of my life ambitions used to be to never run a marathon. But times have changed, and now I associate this event with my dad. On the day of the 2026 Chicago Marathon it'll be almost exactly three years to the day since my dad died from cancer. While he thought running for hours on end was silly, bad for your health, and his idea of hell (his words), he did approve of my fundraising efforts. The first year for La Casa Norte and homeless youth and families in the Chicago area. The last two years for the American Cancer Society, appropriately enough. This year I am again raising funds for the most worthy of charities considering my dad's many brushes with this terrible disease, and, ultimately, his demise.
I am still not kidding myself: I don't really believe in "beating cancer". But I do believe in making a dent. Please help me in doing so with a donation toward my lofty (and prescribed) goal of $2500. The funds I'm raising will sustain critical research and provide services for people trying to cope with their cancer experience.
Running, meanwhile, is a coping mechanism. It keeps me going. So here it is, my fourth Chicago Marathon. (Still trying to finish in under 4 hours.)
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It's that time of year again: training for the 2026 Chicago Marathon (on October 11) begins this week, as do my requests for your contributions to my lofty (and prescribed) $2500 fundraising goal for the @AmericanCancer Society. I am doing this in honour of my dad who thought running lost distances was silly and his idea of hell.
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