"The conditions were the same for everyone," Keen said. "I didn't know they had put that (shelter-in-place) out. I was just running. There was a lot of lightning in the first eight miles. I just kept going. If they were going to postpone it, that was their choice. You kind of just have to roll with it on race day. You have your plan and there's only so many things you can control. You just have to roll with it."
Women's half-marathon winner Aimee Piercy thought she heard someone shouting about sheltering but everyone around her continued, so she did the same.
"I got kind of concerned out there, but hey, why not? We're already out here," was Piercy's logic. "It was kind of refreshing being out there in the rain."
Said half-marathon men's participant Thomas Mern, "I saw other people (sheltering), but I think it was a question of whether I thought I was safe."
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