The Chicago Bears Super Shuffle had a great game day feel that was very enjoyable. My girlfriend and I signed up for the inaugural race back in July, which was a late add to the Chicago racing schedule, but ended up being a great add. This being a Fleet Feet race lives up to the high expectations of being a great race time and time again.

The race was unique in that there were four different start times for the corrals, the first corral was the Briggs corral at 6:30, Cutler corral at 6:45, Marshall corral at 7:00, and the Tillman corral at 7:15. Since the B-tag timing system was used, your place and time were still accurate, and you didn't feel like you were competing. The start of the race was amazing, being able to go through the same chute that the Bears players go through on game day, all with fireworks and flags to cheer you on. Ronald McDonald was on the course as well promoting his Ronald McDonald house (Part of the Bears Care that the race's designated charity).

Aid station was well manned and had plenty of water and gatorade on stock. The finish line was really neat. It was the first time that I've seen a 5k with cold wet towels at the end of the race. Water, gatorade, bananas, and Nabisco products were all featured at the end.

The after party was pretty sweet. Dunkin Donuts, Miller Lite, ice cream, Athletico stretching, and WBBM News Radio were all there featuring the Packers-Seahawks opening game. Current Bear safety Ryan Mundy also made an appearance and talked about the upcoming season. They had a raffle giving participants opportunity to have a 5-minute phone call with either Briggs, Cutler, Marshall, or Tillman whichever corral you were a part of. Being able to talk to the players 3 days before the start of the season would've been awesome!

If there were two sore spots, I would say that packet pickup was a little hard since there was only two days to pick up packets starting on Tuesday, and it was advertised until the week of the race when and where the packets could be picked up at. A Sunday pickup at Fleet Feet would've been ideal. Further none of the race course was inside Soldier Field. It would've been really cool to run through part of the stadium such as the Race to Wrigley that allows fans to run underneath the bleachers of Wrigley.

Overall, I'm giving this race a four out of five stars, and I only see this race getting bigger every year.