At the Health & Fitness Expo on Friday and Saturday, one of the main attractions were the "live" New Balance models, who demonstrated different stretching poses throughout the day.

At the Brooks booth, runners could pose for caricature drawnings. Sharon Crawford from Beavercreek, OH, poses for Enrique Sanchez from the Illinois Institute of Art.

No, not running guru Jeff Galloway (although he rules, too) but it's friends and family of Denise Galloway from Holland, MI.

New Balance Pace Team Leader, Dennis Linehan, fields questions at the course talk from people like "How do you pick pace leaders?"

Some stats from the race results page: total number of finishers, 33,003; total female runners: 14,326; and total male runners, 18,677.

Something Chicago had never seen before was two-time defending champion Evans Rutto (#1) being broken by the lead group, as Benjamin Maiyo (#15) and eventual winner Felix Limo (#3) push the pace.

Early on in the race, the top three women, Masako Chiba (#103), Deena Kastor (#102) and defending champion Constantina Tomescu-Dita (#101), kept each other in check.

Rolling along at sub-2:30 pace was a pack made up of several top local runners, including (from left to right) Jim Akita, Ricky Britton (obscured), Dave Lyons, Jeremy Borling, John Weigel and John Hiatt.

It was a day for crowning new champions as men's winner Felix Limo of Kenya (2:07:02) and women's winner Deena Kastor of Mammoth Lakes, CA, accepted their awards.

Boulder, CO's Alan Culpepper lead the way for the American men, fighting a head cold and a tough elite field to finish 12th overall in 2:13:18.

41-year-old Colleen De Reuck, of Boulder, CO, set a new American masters record with her time of 2:28:40, which was also good for fourth overall among the women.