Chicago marathon cancelled mid race?!!

[anakiwa]

I was there- it was quite an experience! I finished at 4:21 (about a half hour slower than I had meant to run and a personal worst) but given the conditions felt pretty good. It was just really really hot (at mile 20 there was a bank thermometer reading 91 degrees- and that would have been before noon). I knew in the first few miles that it just wasn't the day to push things and slowed down.

From what I saw the race was extremely well organized. I never had a problem getting flluids (though that said I was in one of the earlier start corrals and the masses were behind me). If the organizers made a mistake, it was in letting the race get too big. Stopping the race and redirecting people to the finish was clearly the right thing to do (as it was the ambulance sirens at the finish never stopped).

[Pax]

I was there- it was quite an experience! I finished at 4:21 (about a half hour slower than I had meant to run and a personal worst) but given the conditions felt pretty good. It was just really really hot (at mile 20 there was a bank thermometer reading 91 degrees- and that would have been before noon). I knew in the first few miles that it just wasn't the day to push things and slowed down.

From what I saw the race was extremely well organized. I never had a problem getting flluids (though that said I was in one of the earlier start corrals and the masses were behind me). If the organizers made a mistake, it was in letting the race get too big. Stopping the race and redirecting people to the finish was clearly the right thing to do (as it was the ambulance sirens at the finish never stopped).

Glad you finished without injury!

[Zen]

Here- http://www.sportsgeezer.com/sportsge...shorter-o.html