Tick, tick, tick.  Last tourist stop.  Marathon bib pick-up @ MiCo (Milano Convention Centre) via Metro.  Easy navigation.  Modern, well-marked/labelled (used both red & yellow lines).

HUGE marathon, nice-sized Expo.  NYC & San Francisco bigger, but this one – soooo international, many countries represented.  Like walking a row at the UN (United Nations).  Runs represented from France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, UK, Poland – and host country Italy, of course.

FREE is for ME.  Entered a drawing (& WON entry) to a far far-away December location but… still gotta get there.  Fingers crossed I receive a lottery ‘thumbs-up’ from JAPAN, where ideally I’d tag Continent #7 over Thanksgiving break.  So it’s Osaka or Abu Dhabi (no joke).  Either way, all signs pointing to SEVEN CONTINENT completion in December 2019 (life goal, half-year early).

(Strangely, geographically, much the Middle East is technically Asia.)

Just 26.2 miles of cobblestone to go AND a big plate of PASTA.  Pre-race carb-loading in ITALY — HIGHLY recommended.  Tomorrow we run, tonite we EAT.  Gracie mille, Milano.  Molto bene!

Milan Running Festival