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| camelot |
Posted - 08/10/2007 : 01:22:53
Scorching Chicago Marathon leaves 1 dead
CHICAGO - In a race run in scorching heat that left one man dead, Kenya's Patrick Ivuti won the Chicago Marathon by a fraction of a second Sunday. More than 300 runners were taken to hospitals because of heat-related ailments...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071007/ap_on_sp_ot/run_chicago_marathon
I have lived here most of my life and I still do not understand how 88 F temperature feels like 100 when it happens here in in October. This is a big event here, and some serious runners I know actually quit. So it was not just the usual "out of shape" over reachers that were felled by the heat. GB was well represented as always...you can do a search here for results...
http://livechicago.mikatiming.com/
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| Miriam Binder |
Posted - 08/10/2007 : 09:51:34
Water is essential, especially when we are involved in physical activity and even more so when this physical activity takes place in warm weather. |
| Daveb |
Posted - 08/10/2007 : 09:43:44
I have completed some summer marathons in UK.
Luckily there was lots & lots of water around.
Must have drank many litres.
Just to show how much was sweated out I did not need a pee for hours after. |
| long time no see |
Posted - 08/10/2007 : 08:33:11
Yes 88F
is Summer Heat.
Strange for the Windy City.
Sign Of The Times. |
