Join CITIUS MAG hosts Eric Jenkins, Karen Lesiewicz, Paul Hof-Mahoney, Mac Fleet, and special guests as they host a live watch party from Chicago for the men's and women's elite races. We'll be providing commentary, reactions, insights and analysis live as the elite races unfold.
The penultimate World Marathon Major of 2025 is upon us! The Chicago Marathon has become (even more) famous in recent years for playing host to blazing fast times, including the current men’s and now asterisked women’s world record. The late Kelvin Kiptum set his 2:00:35 mark in 2023, followed by Ruth Chegnetich’s too-good-to-be-true 2:09:56 in 2024—although it’s worth noting that the women’s world record has been broken three previous times in Chicago as well, in 2001, 2002, and 2019.
The fields assembled may not get the better of either mark, particularly with warmer temperatures in the forecast, but it’s still very possible that we’ll see some very fast times, particularly on the men’s side, with six entr...