I’m running the 2022 Chicago Marathon on behalf of the Greater Chicago Food Depository. To help with my fundraising efforts, I put together this animated video. It was inspired by my friend Greggy asking me a simple question—”Why run the Chicago Marathon?” This jogged much thinking on my part…no pun intended. Sure, it’s a lot of work, but it’s worth it for the wonderful tour of the sights, sounds and smells of Chicago. I tried to capture that joy of exploration with this fun video, which was animated using Procreate. Special thanks to my good friend Adam Wiebe for the editing and sound design help, and mysterious recording artist PONY for lending me the instrumental version of his hit song “You Can’t Make A Flower Grow.”