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So: were any Chicago HCBF'ers serenading me during the marathon?


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Did you get to finish? Some friends went up from Cincy to run. They were bummed to have to stop. I guess this was their 2nd or 3rd aborted attempt at a marathon.

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I normally am there, but it was too hot for me and my little guy to stand there screaming like idiots for a few hours. It definitely was too hot for anyone to be running.

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I didn't finish, but not because of the heat. One of my knee ligaments betrayed me around mile 15; I ended up walking a lot up till mile 20, where I first heard the news. Around mile 18, I walked past a guy getting mouth-to-mouth in the middle of the course from three frantic paramedics.

 

Thing is, it didn't feel that hot to me. I trained in way worse heat and humidity in Kansas City (August: upper 90's, super-humid).

 

I plan on trying again next year - up until my knee issues, I was on track for a sub-4:00:00 finish.

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Thing is, it didn't feel that hot to me. I trained in way worse heat and humidity in Kansas City (August: upper 90's, super-humid).

 

 

Yes. Someone please enlighten me. Don't runners train in heat like this? We're not talking 100+ degree TX weather here.

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Yes. Someone please enlighten me. Don't runners train in heat like this? We're not talking 100+ degree TX weather here.

 

 

yes. most training schedules call for a near 20 mile run as your last long run before the race.

 

I guess they fear people are more likely to not stop when they should during the actual race.

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Not in Chicago they don't. Besides, apparently there were some water supply issues. Lack of preparedness for both the runners and the organizers.

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Not in Chicago they don't. Besides, apparently there were some water supply issues. Lack of preparedness for both the runners and the organizers.

 

 

Sure they would, or they should. proper training for these is months long. They'd have been running on much hotter days than that was all through this last very hot summer.

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Sure they would, or they
should
. proper training for these is months long. They'd have been running on much hotter days than that was all through this last very hot summer.

 

 

I know a lot of people that run the marathon every year. Because the temperature the day of the marathon is usually 20-30 degrees below what it was this past weekend, most train all summer long in the early morning before there is any real heat. Some even shift around their longer runs to different days to avoid the heat. It has been a good strategy for the past several years, but not this one.

 

I agree they should and that's what I meant about lack of preparation by everyone.

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Not in Chicago they don't. Besides, apparently there were some water supply issues. Lack of preparedness for both the runners and the organizers.

 

 

 

My friends said that they passed a lot of water stops that were out of water. People were bringing pitchers of water out of their houses for the runners. I guess they cracked open a couple of fire hydrants around mile 16.

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apparently, the guy you passed getting CPR died. he was a cop, and the one fatality from the marathon. a friend of mine got turned back at 16. she said "brutal" didn't begin to describe the conditions.

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My friends said that they passed a lot of water stops that were out of water. People were bringing pitchers of water out of their houses for the runners. I guess they cracked open a couple of fire hydrants around mile 16.

 

 

There was tons of water there at the start of the race, but consumption was exceedingly high, due in large part to runners pouring huge quantities of water on themselves to help cool down. Obviously they didn't realize they were going to cause a shortage. Many of the stations were being refilled by local residents bringing water to the stations from their kitchens. It was ugly.

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I heard some guy died......I think it was his heart and not the heat

 

 

He had a preexisting heart condition of which he was aware, but the heat certainly didn't help him. He literally ran himself to death.

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we have a half marathon here every labor day weekend. it is usually way too hot for that. i ran right by the guy that died a few years ago. i thought that he just slipped on the wet wax cups that were laying all over the ground. in hindsight, i now realize that he was probably having a seizure. there were paramedics there helping him, and i was very close to having a heat problem myself. i was too lightheaded to know what i was doing. luckily that was at mile 12 so it was almost over for me. i don't run that one anymore. my band played at it last year and it was too hot for even that.

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I ran a couple of half marathons in Indy in similar conditions. I was in peak shape and the 13 miles just about did me in. I was as hydrated as I could be and was still shivering at the end in 95 degrees with 90+ humidity. I ran 10 miles the week before, in much cooler weather, and had no trouble handling a full work day the same day.

 

If I faced those conditions, for a full marathon, I think I would have bagged it and lived to run another day.

 

I agree that, based on past races, the Chicago folks, runners and support folks, were not adequately prepared for the heat. Bad situation all around.

 

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"The name marathon comes from the legend of Pheidippides, a Greek soldier, who was sent from the town of Marathon to Athens to announce that the Persians had been defeated in the Battle of Marathon.[1] It is said that he ran the entire distance without stopping, but moments after proclaiming his message to the city he collapsed dead from exhaustion"

 

(from wiki)

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