Body of missing ultra marathoner found in New Mexico wilderness (Micah True aka Caballo Blanco)

FoxNews/A: ^ | 4/1/2012

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Searchers on Saturday found the body of renowned long-distance runner Micah True, who vanished four days earlier after heading out from a lodge for a morning run in the rugged wilderness near New Mexico's Gila National Forest.

The body was discovered in a remote area of the Gila Wilderness, state police spokesman Lt. Robert McDonald said.

The cause of death was still unknown, but there were no signs of trauma, incident commander Tom Bemis said. "It's too early to say, there was nothing obvious," he told the Boulder Daily Camera.

The 58-year-old True, whose extreme-distance running prowess is detailed in the book "Born to Run," set out on what -- for him -- would have been a routine 12-mile run Tuesday from The Wilderness Lodge and Hot Springs, where he was staying. He left his dog at the lodge and never returned. A search began the next day after.

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

I guess it would have to be a summer game, because the Cubs don’t play in October!

[happygrl]

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1988-12-08/news/0090030143_1_rother-marine-corps-safety-valve

Marine Lance Cpl. Jason J. Rother, called the “bravest Marine who never went to war.”

This was a heart-breaking story.

[2nd Bn, 11th Mar]

True, true...

[Dick Vomer]

The theory is that the heart attack damaged his heart to the point it wasn't able to overcome gravity and pump blood from his lower body back through his heart, the brain, lungs, etc. Had he been face down, there would be no gravity to overcome and he might have survived.

That info is incorrect. Just telling you in order that in case of chest pain the paramedics don't find you ass up and face in the dirt. Embarrassing.

Just take an aspirin, wait for the paramedics and get to a hospital that is a "heart center". They'll have a protocol for getting you from door to cardiac catheterization and open coronary arteries in less than 60 minutes.