I’ve never called this the workout wall before, but it’s as apt a description as any.

It’s the wall by our workout area.

It’s the wall I painted first when I started the painting project, because I put up that bulletin board a few years ago and I never wanted to move it and then practically minutes after I put the bulletin board up Kathy suggested painting all of the downstairs walls…so when I started painting I wanted to paint that one first and make sure the bulletin board was secure again.

But I digress.

The big new thing on that wall is the two Chicago Marathon posters.

One of the nice things about the Chicago Marathon is at the Expo, at the Bank of America booth, they give away these posters. So far I’m 2-for-2 on the posters surviving the plane ride back to Boston, and I get these cheap little frames from Michael’s, and this past week I finally decided to hang them up.

The bigger one on the left is from 2 years ago - it has just been standing propped up against the wall, so the frame warped a bit - I don’t know if you can tell, but it’s a little curved away from the wall. That might bother me forever now.

But the other one is brand new - that’s the smaller one, this year’s poster - and I love it because I love that Chicago skyline, and it’s another great keepsake from a great marathon I ran.

So I’m happy I got those hanging and I was excited to share them here.

The other cool development is the way that bulletin board is filling up with bibs - I couldn’t wait, when I first hung it up shortly after my first Boston Marathon - for it to start looking like this.

I moved a couple of the bibs around - I grouped the BAA Distance Medley bibs there, and now there’s room for the half marathon when I complete that. I decided I’d rather have hose together than keep everything chronological.

It was basically a swap between the Distance Medley bibs and this year’s Chicago bib, which is now right below the other Chicago bib, so that worked out nicely.

The bottom rows are a bunch of 5K bibs, which I can always stack one on top of the other if I need more room at any point.

Eventually I might have to be strategic about my bib placement as I add more and more - there might have to be a lot of overlap.

Because I definitely started running these big races later than most people…but whether they’re half marathons or full marathons, I’m not planning on stopping any time soon.