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Post by frojoe23 on Oct 7, 2007 11:45:28 GMT -5
Looks like there was only OT qualifier out of Chicago and that was West Virginia's own Mikey Cox. It obviously was an insanely hot day as the winners failed to go under 2:10 and top five was 2:16. Looks like Travis Simpson ended up not running and Edmund Burke was a casualty of the heat as he finished in 2:43 after a 1:12 first half.
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Post by woody on Oct 8, 2007 6:14:50 GMT -5
They ended up closing the race down because it got so hot at around the 4 hour mark and 250 people were hospitalized as well as one person actually dying. It is hard to believe that it is that hot in October.
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Post by flyinghighrunner on Oct 8, 2007 17:22:18 GMT -5
not many happy people....see marathonguide for comments. Also heard someone collapsed/died near the end of a 10 miler? any other word on that?
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Post by zach on Oct 8, 2007 18:06:42 GMT -5
Check out this triathlon forum I read. Race staff must have been pretty underprepared from the sounds of it. Pretty hard to handle a marathon in conditions like that without much at the aid stations.
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Post by marc on Oct 8, 2007 18:54:49 GMT -5
On the 10 miler, it happened at the end of the Army 10 miler in DC. I just saw it last night on the news. I don't know anything more than that. They also said that the death in Chicago was a heart condition and not heat related. Those temperatures probably didn't help it though.
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