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Brian Mabee, 43, of Shelby Township, Michigan, who waded into a public foaiutnn to cool off after passing one depleted aid station after another. I thought if I could prepare, they should be able to do it, too. Watch as a runner describes what happened bbOrganizers insisted they adjusted their plans for the heat and boosted the number of drink servings at the race's 15 aid stations to 1.8 million from 1.6 million, as well as adding misting areas, extra ice and water-soaked sponges. We did feel we had more than adequate water supplies out there, said Shawn Platt, senior vice president of LaSalle Bank, the marathon's sponsor.Platt said planners did not anticipate runners would use drinking water to cool themselves when misting stations and sponges weren't available. He acknowledged many stations and sponges were set up toward the end of the route instead of early on when runners first started showing signs of fatigue. Probably we should have been a little more proactive about that, executive race director Carey Pinkowski said. See photos of the marathon bbMany runners said they scrounged for sustenance themselves. Sympathetic spectators along the route pulled garden hoses to the street, spraying runners as they passed.Signs of trouble came early. By the first or second water station, they were out, and they were apologizing, saying, Just run a mile or two and there'll be more water, said Merrie Ann Nall, a 59-year-old writing coach from DeKalb, Illinois.There was speculation the death of 35-year-old Chad Schieber, a Midland, Michigan, police officer, was due to temperatures that reached a race-record 88 degrees within two hours of the 8 a.m. start.But Schieber, whose wife also ran Sunday, had a condition known as mitral valve prolapse and did not die from the heat, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. It sounds like he lost his pulse very fast and died on the race course, George Chiampas, the race's medical director, said Sunday.Hundreds of others were treated along the route for heat-related ailments. Organizers announced they were stopping the race about 3 bd hours in, even though hundreds of people kept running for several more hours. Runners who had not passed a certain point were barred from going further and directed to buses traveling back to the starting area.Organizers told participants who had gotten further along the course they could continue walking to the finish line.Helicopters with bullhorns blared out instructions for runners to stop. Some refused to heed the warnings and kept running. Runners are a very unique breed and they're very determined and they want to push themselves because of the all the time they put in preparing for the race, Platt said.Also Monday, organizers of Chicago's Olympics bid said the problems should not hurt the city's attempt to host the 2016 Summer Games. The very unusual circumstances around the Chicago Marathon were unique and unfortunate, Chicago 2016 spokesman Patrick Sandusky said Monday. It is important to note that the Olympic Games' marathon, with fewer than 200 elite athletes, is a very different event than yesterday's race of nearly 40,000 runners. At least 50 people were taken to hospitals, with another 250 treated along the route, officials said.Five remained at Northwestern Memorial Hospital on Monday evening, all in good condition, a hospital spokeswoman said.One runner's body temperature had reached 107 degrees when he arrived at Northwestern, said Dr. Martin Lucenti. Several runners were stuttering incoherently, unable to say their names or where they lived. Treatment included piling ice on them and setting up fans, Lucenti said.During a typical Chicago Marathon, 96 percent of runners who start complete the course. On Sunday, about 70 percent of the runners or just less than 25,000 were able to finish.One runner who dropped out of Sunday's race said he'd consider running another marathon, but Walter Simpson said it wouldn't happen without first checking the weather forecast. I'd want to be sure I knew what the weather was going to be like, he said. I'd probably run another one but not like this one. Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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