40,000 runners and one very hot morning
Medics were busier than the finish line photographers, and the organisers are rewriting the rulebook.
The forecast turned three days out and never came back. By the eight-kilometre mark the road temperature was over forty degrees.
Organisers added water stations overnight and doubled the medical tents, decisions that are now being credited with preventing a much worse day.
A new heat protocol
Next year's race will publish a colour-coded heat policy with automatic start-time shifts, borrowed from an event that learned the same lesson two summers ago.
Finish rates held up better than expected, largely because the pack self-regulated and slowed down.
The winning time was the slowest in eleven years and nobody in the field cared.
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