Some clips from Chicago Tribune’s coverage:<\/p>\n
\nA Michigan man who collapsed during Sunday’s heat-shortened LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon has died, authorities said… At around 12:10 p.m., near the 20-mile marker at Halsted Street and Cermak Avenues, a Chicago firefighter announced over a public address system: “Attention runners, the marathon has been canceled. You can stop running, now.” … Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford said 302 runners were hospitalized with what he described as heat-related conditions… It was the hottest day in the 30-year history of Chicago’s marathon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Totally separate issue is the interesting sociological fact that well over 95% of marathon runners were fit, white americans. These are the people you see on TV but not that much on the streets, except on events like this…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Some clips from Chicago Tribune’s coverage: A Michigan man who collapsed during Sunday’s heat-shortened LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon has died, authorities said… At around 12:10 p.m., near the 20-mile marker at Halsted Street and Cermak Avenues, a Chicago firefighter announced over a public address system: “Attention runners, the marathon has been canceled. You can stop … Continue reading “Some afterthoughts”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1821,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/1821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}