Looking south along the shore of Lake Michigan toward downtown Chicago just after sunrise. I just got new running shoes for the first time since I started training for the marathon last May so I decided to try them out in Chicago. The lake shore is a beautiful place to run but hella cold when the wind is whipping in from over the water. Yikes.

I read something in the Chicago “Time Out” magazine about how the lake froze so quickly last year that the waves froze, too, so that when this guy rode his bike out onto the ice he was riding over the ridges of frozen waves. Crazy.