ugh...i'm very, very jealous of you bossman. i wish i had my shit together to run a marathon this year but i've been drinking way too much. hopefully next year.
and are you running topless again and sporting that fancy mustache?
hellish chicago marathon. 1 dead so far, 250 hospitalized. they told us to stop running at mile 21, and that the race would be closed at the next aid station, which actually didn't happen. we stopped running for about a mile and then continued, which messed up our time. but the official temperature was 87 degrees with high humidity, some of the signs said 93. we finished, but a lot of people didn't. it was bad. really bad to hear the helicopter overhead and the police telling us to stop running. the opposite of encouragement you could say. no good. there were sirens wailing constantly for the last 5-6 miles. i saw someone on a stretcher around mile 6.
le bossman, so scary. I have several friends who were running that.....need to go make sure they are OK. Glad you got home safe....did you actually finish the 26.2 then or not?
Wow Bossman. Chicago has such hellish weather... the marathon there last year was cold enough that my friends and I were getting frost around the collars of our jackets during warm up.
I ran the inaugural (read: poorly organized) Georgia Marathon in March. It was 87 and humid as shit, and the doofuses ran out of water for the slower runner. I missed out on that, but Powerade (a title sponsor) wasn't available after like mile six - the tables were empty. People were running into 7-11s on course to stock up. At one point, a course marshal threatened to DQ two guys who were going into a convenience store, and the pack shouted her down menacingly. Fortunately no one died, but people were hospitalized. Scary stuff. I'm off marathons for a while.
yikes. I heard about the race, I'm so sad to hear about the hospitilizations and death. My first marathon - Los Angeles 2006 - i saw the paramedics give up on a guy who had cardiac arrest at mile 24. Just when my friend and I arrived, we saw them give him one last defibrilator jump, and then they shrugged their shoulders and right when we ran past I heard them call time of death. it was heartbreaking. he was there, just sprawled out on the asphalt. i'm getting shaky just remembering it. He was one of two to die in that race that year - the other man just collapsed at mile 3, he was in his 70's I think.
congrats on your finish, though, regardless. How many marathons have you completed to date?
Heat is a big factor to deal with, especially in Chicago I bet with most not used to those temps (well, maybe that's not the case, I've never been to Chicago so I'm not that familiar with the weather...).
Last year's LA marathon was in the mid-80's by the time I got to the last few miles and the air was still, it was wretched.
I'll be running my third L.A. Marathon. I train with a group called the L.A. Leggers. 12 miles this Saturday next weekend I'll be doing the Nike Women's 1/2 marathon in San Fran. Wish me luck, especially on the hills - I'm generally a flat road runner. Hmm, perhaps I should track down the topo map of the course...
i'll recommend the detroit marathon as having ample water/gatorade and refreshments. it's traditionally a smaller race (maybe 5,000 marathoners) but with lots of community support and crossing the ambassador bridge into canada and returning via the windsor tunnel makes for a fun race course. i can't wait to run it again although i have to pass this year.
the course had plenty of aid stations available. the difficulty was that no one was acclimated to the heat. no one had ran in heat like that in over a month. do you have to go through customs during that race?
siggy, this was my fourth marathon, third at chicago.
le bossman, no you don't have to go through customs during the race. technically your runner's bib is counted as your passport and there are heavily armed guards waiting at the united states border on the way back ready to pounce anybody without a clearly visible bib.
i was at the race as a spectator... and it was a relief that everyone i was there for finished, and didn't need medical assistance. after the start, we walked over to franklin at mile 12 to watch the runners... and we're standing there for 5 minutes and this girls runs up to the cops and tries to ask for help... she starts passing out and lookin real bad, they get her on the ground and start treating her... no sooner than she was on the ground were a couple runners shouting "medic", "runner down"... it was indeed going to be a tough race. It seemed to me that the people who were in need of medical attention were pushing themselves really hard. I think a lot of people were trying to keep a pace that just wasn't doable considering the heat and humidity. We were near Chinatown when the cops first got the news to tell people to walk, that the race was "cancelled." I told the cop, there's no way in hell anybody is going to stop these people. They've trained for a year and have spent a lot of money to run a marathon. And so it was, the chopper came out, cops stood in the middle of the street with the loudspeakers and the fire department used a huge mist fan towards the end. i always find the marathon and events like it in the city to be a bit surreal, but this was special. it was a legitamite state of emergency for the event. all in all, i probably saw at least 8 people go down. (one by way of an idiot fan on a bike)
i'm guessing they'll move it later in the month next year.
but will it hurt the olympic bid? we may not have a shot anyway...
NY Marathon--who's with me?
what the heck? nobody?
ugh...i'm very, very jealous of you bossman. i wish i had my shit together to run a marathon this year but i've been drinking way too much. hopefully next year.
and are you running topless again and sporting that fancy mustache?
i'm not running a marathon, but i am starting a month long bootcamp in two weeks. five days a week at 7am for 1 hour for one month.
functionalk, anaerobic exercise in a group format. dummy lifts, free weights, body-weight exercise, rope climbing, medicine ball/bell and what-not.
i'm as out of shape as ever...this should be just the kind of motivation i need. maybe going to try the treasure island half-triathalon next year.
a military bootcamp, or an apple bootcamp?
apple, naturally.
hellish chicago marathon. 1 dead so far, 250 hospitalized. they told us to stop running at mile 21, and that the race would be closed at the next aid station, which actually didn't happen. we stopped running for about a mile and then continued, which messed up our time. but the official temperature was 87 degrees with high humidity, some of the signs said 93. we finished, but a lot of people didn't. it was bad. really bad to hear the helicopter overhead and the police telling us to stop running. the opposite of encouragement you could say. no good. there were sirens wailing constantly for the last 5-6 miles. i saw someone on a stretcher around mile 6.
le bossman, so scary. I have several friends who were running that.....need to go make sure they are OK. Glad you got home safe....did you actually finish the 26.2 then or not?
yeah, i finished. the mile long walk left us i think with around a 5 hour time, i'm not sure.
some dude died running the chicago marathon. i think he was from colorado.
how many plastic water bottles and cups were used in the race?
he was 35 and he was from midland, michigan. Chad Schieber was his name. now over 300 people have been sent to the hospital. i'm going to get a drink.
you are so on your own with that!
Wow Bossman. Chicago has such hellish weather... the marathon there last year was cold enough that my friends and I were getting frost around the collars of our jackets during warm up.
I ran the inaugural (read: poorly organized) Georgia Marathon in March. It was 87 and humid as shit, and the doofuses ran out of water for the slower runner. I missed out on that, but Powerade (a title sponsor) wasn't available after like mile six - the tables were empty. People were running into 7-11s on course to stock up. At one point, a course marshal threatened to DQ two guys who were going into a convenience store, and the pack shouted her down menacingly. Fortunately no one died, but people were hospitalized. Scary stuff. I'm off marathons for a while.
yikes. I heard about the race, I'm so sad to hear about the hospitilizations and death. My first marathon - Los Angeles 2006 - i saw the paramedics give up on a guy who had cardiac arrest at mile 24. Just when my friend and I arrived, we saw them give him one last defibrilator jump, and then they shrugged their shoulders and right when we ran past I heard them call time of death. it was heartbreaking. he was there, just sprawled out on the asphalt. i'm getting shaky just remembering it. He was one of two to die in that race that year - the other man just collapsed at mile 3, he was in his 70's I think.
congrats on your finish, though, regardless. How many marathons have you completed to date?
Heat is a big factor to deal with, especially in Chicago I bet with most not used to those temps (well, maybe that's not the case, I've never been to Chicago so I'm not that familiar with the weather...).
Last year's LA marathon was in the mid-80's by the time I got to the last few miles and the air was still, it was wretched.
I'll be running my third L.A. Marathon. I train with a group called the L.A. Leggers. 12 miles this Saturday next weekend I'll be doing the Nike Women's 1/2 marathon in San Fran. Wish me luck, especially on the hills - I'm generally a flat road runner. Hmm, perhaps I should track down the topo map of the course...
Wow, terrible grammar in that last post. Sorry guys! Was typing fast.
i'll recommend the detroit marathon as having ample water/gatorade and refreshments. it's traditionally a smaller race (maybe 5,000 marathoners) but with lots of community support and crossing the ambassador bridge into canada and returning via the windsor tunnel makes for a fun race course. i can't wait to run it again although i have to pass this year.
the course had plenty of aid stations available. the difficulty was that no one was acclimated to the heat. no one had ran in heat like that in over a month. do you have to go through customs during that race?
siggy, this was my fourth marathon, third at chicago.
the heat did not kill the runner. it was a heart defect.
note to self: limit runs to 6 miles and when the temperature is blow 80.
*below
le bossman, no you don't have to go through customs during the race. technically your runner's bib is counted as your passport and there are heavily armed guards waiting at the united states border on the way back ready to pounce anybody without a clearly visible bib.
i was at the race as a spectator... and it was a relief that everyone i was there for finished, and didn't need medical assistance. after the start, we walked over to franklin at mile 12 to watch the runners... and we're standing there for 5 minutes and this girls runs up to the cops and tries to ask for help... she starts passing out and lookin real bad, they get her on the ground and start treating her... no sooner than she was on the ground were a couple runners shouting "medic", "runner down"... it was indeed going to be a tough race. It seemed to me that the people who were in need of medical attention were pushing themselves really hard. I think a lot of people were trying to keep a pace that just wasn't doable considering the heat and humidity. We were near Chinatown when the cops first got the news to tell people to walk, that the race was "cancelled." I told the cop, there's no way in hell anybody is going to stop these people. They've trained for a year and have spent a lot of money to run a marathon. And so it was, the chopper came out, cops stood in the middle of the street with the loudspeakers and the fire department used a huge mist fan towards the end. i always find the marathon and events like it in the city to be a bit surreal, but this was special. it was a legitamite state of emergency for the event. all in all, i probably saw at least 8 people go down. (one by way of an idiot fan on a bike)
i'm guessing they'll move it later in the month next year.
but will it hurt the olympic bid? we may not have a shot anyway...
Interesting op article by Frank Shorter in the NY Times provoked by Chicago:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/12/opinion/12shorter.html
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