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You've got to feel sorry for the thousands of people who started the Chicago marathon this morning. On the face of it, October 7th seems like a good day to run 26 miles in Chicago - average high of 20C, average low of 9C, what could be better? But the strangeness of Chicago weather was their downfall, and a high today of 30C and humidity around 60% meant that the race got cancelled at noon... www.chicagotribune.com.

This just goes to show that the half marathon is a much more sensible distance.