Women's 10 Mile Cancelled Due to 73° Start Time Temp

Much cooler than where I run. It would feel good. But I guess it would be hot wearing the full burqa.

Ridiculous.

That's not even hot for a pasty paved Brit.

22 degrees Celsius. An absolute joke

ukathleticscoach wrote:

Ridiculous.

That's not even hot for a pasty paved Brit.

22 degrees Celsius. An absolute joke

Jokes have punchlines. What's this ones'?.......Regarding Chicago 2007 - In 2007, the injuries were more serious. “More than 50 runners were taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital where they arrived unconscious, incoherent or unable to give their names,” Dr. Marty Lucenti told a Tribune reporter at the time. “Most of these people were pushing their bodies to the absolute max.” Oct. 7, 2007, was a scorcher. At the race’s 8 a.m. start, the temperature was 73, the humidity 93 percent. It felt like 90 degrees when the marathon’s director left his hotel. Shortly it was clear that not enough ambulances were on standby, and the Chicago Fire Department had to request suburban first responders. As the first racers crossed the finish line — the men’s competition was a photo finish — it was clear that a disaster was in the making. At the urging of fire officials, the marathon was suspended at 11:30 a.m. The remaining runners were intercepted at the halfway mark, and urged to take shelter in nearby air-conditioned buildings. Officially, it was a record 88 degrees. Of the 45,000 runners signed up for the race, only 36,000 started. More than 300 who started left in ambulances. One of them, a police officer from Michigan, died before reaching a hospital.

deltabravo wrote:

Snowflakes gonna melt.

+1

Will they still be sending out the finisher medals?

I can't imagine why they thought this was necessary. I run in the south, so like others who have posted, I often race in conditions much worse than this. But even in cooler climates, I've started races in hotter weather, higher humidity, and high dewpoint. I ran some dreadful little marathon in New Hampshire once. It was Fall, and weather had been cool to cold, except race day dawned high 80's and high humidity. It was unheard of. We ran anyway. No one died.

I have a sneaking suspicion that something else was afoot, and it was a better idea to just cancel. Perhaps participation was very low, and this was a good opportunity to cancel and avoid paying for police and road closures.

P.S. I would give my theoretical first born for a dew point of 67.

When I was a kid, we’d run marathons in 110 degree heat and 110% humidity. Uphill both ways. And we’re talking Celsius.

Takinadump wrote:

Nonsense. Last year I ran a 10 miler in DC on the hottest day of the year. 100% humidity and 95° at 8am. Suck it.

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I have to agree that they were looking for an excuse to cancel the race. Those conditions described are nicer than the conditions for any 10 mile race I've done in my home state where the two most popular ones are held in the summer (June and August).

The additional irony of this and if you can excuse me stereotyping for a moment is that women typically prefer hotter conditions than men. I'll show up to a 50 degree run being excited about the temperature and the women are all bundled up wishing it was 70 degrees.

people are getting weaker and weaker...

pathetic. and it's a TEN MILE races; one should presume that it's the more serious women athletes who registed for the event when there were shorter events the same day.

most Minnesotans are pretty tough; too bad the race directors aren't among them.

alabama runner wrote:

Northerner snowflakes can't handle the heat. I just ran a 5k in 88deg weather, 96deg heat index. It sucked, but no one was clanoring to cancel. I think that the cancellation was a bit excessive, especially considering road races have water stops usually.

Lol I live north of Minnesota and I wouldn't even consider 73 hot. Clearly it was a women's choice to cancel...

tonguing gopher hole wrote:

pathetic. and it's a TEN MILE races; one should presume that it's the more serious women athletes who registed for the event when there were shorter events the same day.

most Minnesotans are pretty tough; too bad the race directors aren't among them.

Doubtful - not many of the "serious" women were likely going to run that race as most of them are signed up for the 10 miler this Sunday as part of Twin Cities Marathon weekend. Last year the winning time for the race that got cancelled was 1:08 and that time would've placed 49th at the TC 10 miler.

Race directors don't need to be tough - they need to be smart.

Griak had a lot of issues with chips not working at the finish line, this it initially appeared like there were a lot more DNFs than there actually were. The updated results show 10 DNFs for 157 racers. Higher than expected, but not terrible.

Twin Cities in Motion, tends to be overly cautious. They've cancelled the TC one mile for a thunderstorm that never occurred. And then combined fields the following year (causing mass confusion) because they were frightened of some protestors (all 30 of them.)

On the flip side, generally nordic ski races are not cancelled unless it's -15º F or -25º with windchill. There was a Mora Vasaloppet were it was -40º windchill at the start.