Posted on 04/14/2014 2:47:45 AM PDT by Libloather
RALEIGH, N.C. Two runners who died Sunday morning as participants in the Rock n Roll Marathon may fit the profile of the most common fatalities in such events, according to a Duke sports medicine specialist: men in their 30s with pre-existing, undiagnosed cardio abnormalities.
Saying the runners families wanted privacy, race organizers did not release the names of the men who died or give any indication of their causes of death.
We regret to confirm that two participants passed away at todays half-marathon, said Dr. P.Z. Pearce, the events medical director. We are greatly saddened by these tragic losses, and our prayers go out to the each of the runners family and friends.
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However, the risk of being a couch potato carries much more health risk...
However, the risk of being a couch potato carries much more health risk...
Allow me to kick it off with some Steely Dan.
I have a doctors order for a VAP which I requested. My ldl was at the warning level under the old standard but fine under the new AHA standards. Still my doc is concerned. Reason I ordered a VAP is that I read statins do not lower LDL-B levels. So if I have a VAP, I have a baseline for LDL-A and LDL-B. If I decide on a statin, I can measure its true effectiveness.
Even if it saves just one life!!!
Correct. It wasn’t exercise that was the problem, it was the long duration, high intensity, combined with a less than ideal diet, that caused the problem.
Good for you! As for me, I stopped running the day I left the Army (30 years ago). I spend plenty of time on the treadmill, and I'll be walking 15 miles to celebrate my 60th birthday in a few weeks.
I rarely see people jogging with a smile on their faces. They don't look like they're enjoying themselves. ;)
“I told my wife that after this is all over I will be ready to start running again. Her response was she will have the lawyer contact me with divorce papers and she will pack up my things for me.”
Haha! Sounds like you have an addiction. I know the feeling....any sort of injury or illness that keeps me from running makes me go bat crap crazy
‘Allow me to kick it off with some Steely Dan.’
Only if you allow me to follow up with The 5 Satins.
I might agree, except I realized that the human body is actually designed to travel 300 hours in just under 4 hours.
In this case it is a “half-marathon”, 13.1 miles, it does make me wonder if people might be trying to set personal records too much so.
I concur. That is my idea of fun, too.
That is why this story is a bit curious, the runners are 35 and 31.
There’ve been several incidents over the past few years of soccer players dropping dead on the pitch. In an average game, a player can wind up running 5-6 miles.
Fabrice Muamba would be an example of the latter.
LONDON, England Bolton Wanderers Fabrice Muamba woke up yesterday and managed to talk to his fiancée Shauna Muganda.
Muamba, 23, suffered a cardiac arrest in Saturdays FA Cup match at Spurs. His heart reportedly stopped beating for seven minutes and doctors carried out numerous cardiac massages before it started pumping blood on its own again.
He of course, recovered but I'm sure has stopped playing the game.
They must have stepped up testing in England/UK over this. This now has not happened in a while. I know it happened to some of the "lower-level" clubs.
For the record, Muamba offered very religious Christian-type of gratitude for recovering.
There was a recent one with Rich Peverley of the Dallas Stars, they ended up stopping the game, and rescheduled it. Fortunately, he survived. But his playing days are probably over.
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