The largest mass participation fun run in the world took place in Auckland, New Zealand, where an estimated 80 000 participants ran 10.4 km 'Round the Bays' in the early fall of 1982. Even in the relatively mild climate of Auckland, heat stroke and other types of heat illness occur during this annual event. To quantify the possible heat load brought about by running in a large crowd, those components of the microenvironment that affect radiant, evaporative and convective heat exchange were measured, both within the mass of runners and separately from it. -from Authors
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De Freitas, C. R., Dawson, N. J., Young, A. A., & Mackey, W. J. (1985). Microclimate and heat stress of runners in mass participation events. Journal of Climate & Applied Meteorology, 24(2), 184–191. https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0450(1985)024<0184:MAHSOR>2.0.CO;2
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