Quote Originally Posted by Queen View Post
I watched the WGN (Chicago) news last night. The race organizers said they had plenty of supplies and had brought in a bunch more the day before to address the heat...then the first groups of runners started coming through the water station and grabbing 5-10 cups of drinking water each to dump on their heads. The later runners were left with nothing.
DH admitted he would drink about 3 cups and dump 3 MORE cups on his head early on to cool down. The Chicago Marathon people brought in an additional 250,000 servings of water for a total of 1.8 million for 35,000 runners. More than 10,000 runners didn't even show up.