CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Marathon officials expect good conditions for most of Sunday’s race and aren’t sweating a forecast that calls for temperatures to reach about 80 degrees in the afternoon.
By then, the top runners will be off the course and many participants will be finished or in the latter stages.
The forecast also calls for low humidity — a big difference from three years ago, when 35-year-old man died on a scorching, humid afternoon.
Medical director Dr. George Chiampas says the conditions back then were “very different” and “well above anything that we’re going to see.”
There are 45,000 runners registered and about 35,000 are expected to participate.
