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...When you finish a marathon, you cross the finish line and you feel like you,ve accomplished something, and you're so happy because you can point to this as something you worked so hard to do," Schuster said, as she boarded a Monday shuttle back to O'Hare. "We were all laughing about it last night, but today we're just sad that we did all of this, and it might not count for anything...
...posed by the weather, the problems included a communication breakdown between event organizers and competitors, a water shortage that left novices dangerously dehydrated, and a wave of anger among experienced runners over the decision to cancel the event when some were as little as a mile away from the finish line...
...fast you ran, three different races that came to three very different conclusions. By 10:30 a.m., the first contest was already over: an epic, exciting, down-to-the-wire finale in a men's competition that lasted just over two hours and came to a rousing photo finish when Patrick Ivuti (2:11:11) edged out runner up Jaouad Gharib by a matter of hundredths of a second...
Many runners like Schuster who were nearing the finish line fought through police officials to finish the race; with the finish line almost in sight, they saw no point in stopping. But the third wave of marathon runners behind them had it even worse: By then, emergency crews and empty water cups made finishing the race almost impossible. Brian Hayes, 36, of Springfield, Illinois, first noticed something wrong at the water station at mile number four (water stops are placed every two miles along the route), where he was told he was "too late" to get water. Sweating profusely...
...think anybody was prepared for what happened," Hayes said. "I don't blame anybody - I was mad I didn't get to finish, but I think it was maybe the best decision, given everything I was hearing. I don't know what else they could have done other than maybe call if off before it started...