It’s bone-chilling to read the Chicago Tribune’s report of today’s Chicago Marathon. The conditions sound like they were a few degrees worse than I experienced in the Paris Marathon this past April. (See my earlier post “The Skinny on the 2007 Paris Marathon” 8/4/07 for my POV of what it’s like to be inside a moving heat trap.)
Again, the water ran out. Again, the frontrunners hoarded the fluids and left the middle and back of the pack parched. Again, it was way too hot to run.
Blessedly, the organizers had the sense to stop the race and compel the runners to walk to the Finish Line. The article says only 4,000 runners made it across the Finish before the call.
God bless the 35-year old Midland, Michigan runner who died on the course after collapsing at the 18-mile mark.
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kip // October 10, 2007 at 10:24 am
This was just a bad situation. Of course, it got FOX to say Climate Change is real – that is, till the next cold snap, when they’ll deny it all over again…
isleofjoy // October 13, 2007 at 5:49 am
That’s funny – so they used the Luntz framing of “climate change” instead of “global warming”? That must gall them especially in a week when Al Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his dogged efforts to raise awareness of the environment’s peril.