Job Opening : Marathon Planner

Just a word of caution to marathon event planners: If you're organizing a future race, jot down the amount of fluids you think you'll need to have available at water stations and then multiply it by 100... thousand. My brother and his wife ran the Melbourne (AUS) marathon this past weekend and by now we've all heard about the Chicago marathan craziness. In both cases, there were high temps and not enough fluids. Made for rough races. So lets modify the race plans and pull some tanker trucks up to the courses. Might help avoid a nasty public relations mess and runner casualties.