PLN #9

My ninth PLN entry is about the recent marathon ran in the Chicago, Illinois which was ran by over three hundred people one was found dead, two remain hospitalized in critical condition, and several more passed out or fainted. These fatalities were believed to be caused by the excruciating heat. At least 49 people were taken to the hospital, while 250 other people we're treated on site while 30 residential ambulances we're used. A couple days earlier when another race was held in Arlington another unidentified runner died. Finally after 3 and a half hours if you weren't at the half way point you were taken off the coarse. At 10am the temperature had reached about 90 degrees, a race day record. Interviewed runners sayed that the aid stations were always full and they quickly ran out of the water and Gatorade leaving people vulnerable to the continuelsy rising heat which got so bad firefighters were opening up firehydrents to cool people down and people along the coarse were spraying their hoses on the wary runners.