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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Enter Anti SPAM Code: Click here to refresh this page Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message Icon:                             Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by camelot[/i] [br][blue]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...[/blue] 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/ [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.