Here’s a BBC news page about the how hot it was on the day – Matt Dawson, the England rugby player, finished in 4h30m said the conditions were “brutal”:
“I have seen it has really had an effect on some people. It just stops you in your tracks when you see people pass out in front in you”.
Gordon Ramsey, who I really wanted to beat, but who ended up thrashing me by about 20 minutes, said:
“It was like running in a desert today. I stopped to help one guy. It was quite bad. They were dropping like flies”.
Michelle Dewbury saw another guy being resuscitated after four miles.
I’ll write about what I saw on the day later on but I saw literally dozens of people collapsing as I went round. We checked the news after I’d finished to see if there had been any fatalities and we were really pleased that there had been no reported deaths, but unfortunately today it looks like one young guy didn’t make it.
Update: Turns out I beat Ramsay by about 5 minutes! I don’t know why exactly but beating a chef 20 years my junior was important to me.
It was also a young girl that died, not a guy. They hadn’t released the id when I posted this earlier.
Also on the BBC a video of the chain gang that I saw on the way round. It was hell if you wanted to get to the water stop behind these guys.
