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[Above: The author celebrates an unlikely accomplishment to the sweet sounds of Fall Out Boy.]

On Sunday, 25 cities around the world participated in Nike+ Human Race. Billed as the “World’s Biggest One-Day Running Event,” the 10K jaunt culminated in music concerts held in each city: Chicago got locally-grown Fall Out Boy, while hometown boy Kanye West teamed up with Common in Los Angeles.

Joining close to 14,000 other Chicago runners, the largest turnout of any U.S. city participating in the global run, was one of the most exhilarating and intimidating things I’ve done in a long while. For a 30-something casual runner, who hadn’t run more than three miles at a time in a decade, this 10K (6.2 miles) was seemingly insurmountable challenge. But it was well worth the aches and pains that are still with me two days later.