Bandits and the marathon

In nine days the Chicago Marathon will take place. I will be there because I paid my $90 entry fee and filled out the online entry form.

But several thousand cheapskates and leeches will also run the Chicago Marathon as "bandits," runners' slang for runners who don't pay the entry fee but crash the party anyway.

The Chicago Tribune's Julie Deardorf has an article, free registration required, today about the ethics of banditry.

Of course, the most famous bandit, if he even did ran it, was John Kerry, who claims to have "bandited" the Boston Marathon sometime around 1980, a detail Deardorff left out of her story.

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