By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:27:00 +0000

Hi Laura, Thanks for the link. I thought you should know you are being scraped. Take a look here: http://www.theirway.net/2007/10/17/chicago-marathon-poor-race-organization/

By: Megan

Megan — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:39:04 +0000

Laura,

Great post! Thanks for sharing. I have been thinking about entering a 5k next summer, and this information is so great to have for when I do enter my first race.

Megan

By: earme

earme — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:13:35 +0000

The man who died in at the Chicago Marathon died of a heart attack, not from the heat. http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/07/chicago.marathon.ap/ I agree that they should have had more water, but seeing a temperature of 88 degrees in October in Chicago is extremely rare. The race was planned for more ‘normal’ October Chicago day. The heat did cause a number of issues that day though. There wasn’t enough water and they decided to cut the race short because of the heat (and probably water issue). Unfortunately, this didn’t get communicated to all the runners and here in the Chicago-land area we heard reports of streets opening back up and marathoners running through traffic because they didn’t know that the course had been changed to cut it short. Hopefully in the future the Chicago Marathon, and others, will be better equipped to deal with unexpected issues that may arise on the day of the marathon.

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