Medical staff quickly move to wrap a cold and wet runner and get her to the aid tent. While not uncommon to see runners needing medical assistance after marathons, the conditions definitely led to a much higher than normal number of ailing runners.
Watching many runners that were obviously strangers up to that point hug, high five, or otherwise share the joy of the moment showed how close together an experience like this can bring people.
People that paid to run in this weather file past people that volunteered to stand in it.
