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Race Reports for Half Madness 13.1 2010

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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: I wasn't going to write a race report. But I am hoping someone else from the Illinois area or the hosting tri group are on these forms and can answer this question. WHY wasn't their an ambulance sitting waiting at the finish line? There were 2,000 runners and no ambulance at the finish? That seems like a big oversight unless there was an ambulance that had to take someone to the hospital before I finished. About 20 minutes after I finished a man stopped breathing as soon as he crossed the line. CPR was given/AED and he was brought back to life. BUT it took 5+ minutes for an ambulance/trained paramedic to get there. Additionally, he sat motionless on the ground for 30-45 seconds while the announcer called for medics from the medic tent which was 100 feet away. I just thought it would be kind of standard procedure for a race of this size to have trained medics sitting at the finish waiting to respond to a situation just like this. Thank God he was able to be brought back and I hope he is
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