Marathon Blame Game Continues

Thousands of people use their spare time to travel to the city to run in a marathon for mostly personal achievement reasons, to prove this or that to whomever it is they felt the need to prove to do this dangerous activity when overdone, then it's unusually warm on this particular day and yet still thousands of people continue to run in those conditions.

Now many are bitching and moaning that there wasn't enough water, there wasn't enough this or that provided them, etc etc. and to top it off one poor man with a known heart condition is now dead, an avid runner and police officer with a family who's doctor gave him full permission to compete.

This activity is a dangerous one and even the most skilled, competitive elite runners couldn't handle the heat, they're all human. As for the ones who were less experienced or for whatever reasons who ended up in the hospital and or simply sick from the event or weren't allowed to finish but are fortunately still alive....., s*** happens and you have no one else to blame but yourselves, NO ONE. Pick yourself up and run another day, or give up the sport altogether and stick to running in your neighborhoods or the lakefront and bring your own water.

Seems that many of the runners were wasting the water meant for drinking to cool themselves six to seven cups at a time which I saw myself in news reports, many people that by looking at them had absolutely no chance of finishing this marathon pouring water on themselves like a shower and also according to reports from organizers who granted are playing CYA today too, just like the complainers.

The new age of no personal responsibility continues unabated and in full force as it seems a whole generation of homegrown Americans and immigrants, legal and otherwise, have been raised here and elsewhere to believe that the rest of the world and not they are responsible for their actions, be them ill advised or simply stupid, then resulting in unintended and unanticipated outcomes of events and yet it's not their fault in any way whatsoever.

No one held a gun to the heads of any of these runners to attend this event and for those that are complaining for one reason or another, next time it's 85 degrees with humidity, stay home and run when it's cooler out later in the day or skip the event as many experienced runners did. The weather reports were readily available that day like any other, as apparently jogging does nothing for many folks' common sense and their use or non use of it.

Of Coarse not all the people and participants are complaining , but the ones that are make me sick and should first look in the mirror if looking for someone to blame, as they were the ones that put themselves in harms way over the weekend at this event and no one else.

A marathon maelstrom

chicagotribune.com: "As the LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon ended with its closest finish ever Sunday, executive race director Carey Pinkowski was awash in the excitement of the race's photo finish, passing out awards and joining the international television coverage. But then Pinkowski quickly found out that while the race among the elite runners was a success, the rest of the event was in trouble: Runners were passing out in the record October heat, ambulances were overtaxed and there were reports of insufficient water at aid stations." continued

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