The Roomorama Blog

Calling all rich masochists: Just 17 days to your next Lollapalooza, The Chicago Marathon (Oct 12). Be patient! Indeed, this is a stuff white people like.

People who take part in big city marathons deserve a chapter of their own in any psychology textbook. Is a sense of achievement worth months of training, registration fees, and flight and hotel headaches?

But my marathon running friends have made me wiser. Apparently, some successful human beings out there go around looking for big defined goals to work towards, as a metaphor for other areas of their lives. A big city marathon is one such goal: It’s defined, takes a lot of physical and mental preparation, and is difficult enough to deserve a little respect. If you’ve never been a POW, a missionary in Africa, or survived a kidnapping, settle for running a marathon or two. Once a marathon is completed, what is say reaching a sales target, or surviving a long meeting, right? 

It’s not just about running 26 miles. Anyone could plan a route around their town. It’s about searching online for a large coordinated marathon, registering for the event, booking flights and hotels, taking vacation days from work, and telling all your friends. One needs to be heavily vested. Expensive and hard-to-cancel goals work best. Only the fear of wasting time and money can make a human being get up at 5am to run in the cold.

After deep thought, we at Roomorama have decided that registering for a marathon is indeed the best psychological maneuver to keep a life disciplined and healthy. We support every one of you masochists out there. 

In fact, we are here to help. No need to waste money on hotels, spend that cognitive dissonance on a new pair of Oakleys. Take a look at what we have on our Chicago listings.