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Originally Posted by ADqtPiMel
Well, I did it -- but it was pretty dang miserable. Record heat and high humidity. Yuck.
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CONGRATULATIONS!!! You got through it, and that is an incredible accomplishment in those kinds of conditions. Good for you.
Hope you had a nice post-race treat for yourself!
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Originally Posted by EE-BO
Sorry bout that pbear- it is really odd to imagine a hurricane affecting St. Louis!
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I know! The race directors ended up stopping the race early, so it's just as well I didn't get there in time. Although I would have gotten the medal at least.
I don't know if it was the 10 mile mark for the leaders, or the 10 mile mark for the friend of a friend, but from what I understand it was called before anyone finished the full (although there may have been 1/2 marathon finishers, I'm not positive about that).
I saw somewhere online this morning that Ike was considered a tropical depression - while it was dumping rain on St. Louis.
That made me chuckle, a
tropical anything in the middle of the country! By the afternoon it was gorgeous and sunny here, it moved through that quickly. There was a lot of road flooding, and the race was right by a river in bottom lands, so my guess is they had to stop it early because of flooding, rather than the deluge of rain still coming down.
I likely won't end up running since I have a history of fainting in heat.
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