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...race such as the Boston marathon - who formed the marathon's second wave. Numbering in the tens of thousands, they ran through their third and fourth hours (the race began at 8 a.m.) underneath a glaring sun - which, despite official numbers, caused one temperature gauge atop a bank near mile 23 to reach 96 degrees around 12:15 p.m. - when they first started to notice something was going terribly wrong...
...drenched in sweat, completely soaked, after only mile one, and that is very unusual," said Emily Schuster, 25, a New Yorker who had trained for the event since June. "And then somebody collapsed before the halfway point, before even mile 13, and I thought: 'OK, it must be hot, they must be old.' But then at mile 15, there's a stretch where you turn into the sun and run for several miles, and people started dropping like flies. Older, younger, men, women -every couple of steps you saw someone collapsing with ice on their head...
...shortly after noon when Schuster crossed mile 23 - on a corner where several hundred onlookers cheered the racers, shouting "It's all downhill from here!" - and first heard the announcement from a squad car's loudspeaker that the marathon was cancelled. As she neared mile 25, she encountered policemen standing in the middle of the street, urging runners to stop and walk and informing them that it was now just a 'fun run.'" Other runners said they were given even less clear-cut directions from festival officials - some runners said the only notice of the race's cancellation they received...
...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, he was told the same at mile six - at one of the same stations where, earlier in the day, volunteers were not only handing...
According to official statements and the marathon's web site, the event was only canceled for those who had not reached the marathon's halfway point by noon. But Hayes says he had crossed mile 15 at 11:30 a.m. and was officially removed from the course at 12:04, re-rerouted by officials who by that point had closed the marathon and ran the runners back to Chicago's Grant Park...