Statistically, the risk of death is less than 1 percent for every 100,000 runners, reports CBS News correspondent Kimberly Dozier.

huh?

SurfaceTension: Statistically, the risk of death is less than 1 percent for every 100,000 runners, reports CBS News correspondent Kimberly Dozier.

huh?

This would be the 'new math' that is being talked about I think.

/I need a LOT more coffee to be able to wrap my head around that one

Mercutio879: People die in football games, basketball games, and track events. I don't see why this is a huge shock. The only reason it's dangerous is because people don't train enough, or don't take the risks seriously enough. The first marathon I did I didn't realize how far 26.2 was. The two I've done since have been much better.

Yeah, and the marathon deaths are just from overexertion (unlike the various crazy accidents you can get in football/baseball/basketball by being hit in a precisely bad way by either another player or the ball).

People die from overexertion at work, in the fields, all kinds of things all the time too. Including over-long practice sessions for other sports in the summer. You need to be careful and know your limits, but that's not exclusive to the marathon, I think.

Most marathon runners that I know do not look good or healthy.

Good. I needed an excuse to play Star Craft for 56 hours straight instead of going outside.

Don't worry subby, I see what you did there



Niki!!

The last person I knew that was a marathon runner was a total nutjob. I mean, she was one of the only professors in the dept. of the university I used to work at that was denied tenure (and rightfully so.) She had emotional breakdowns where she would literally scream and cry at least a few days a week.

And she was also so thin that she looked incredibly mal-nourished and I never once saw her eat anything. When we'd have lab lunches, she would scoot the food around on her plate, but never actually take a bite.

Being in shape = good for you
Being profoundly thin to be incredibly malnourished = not good
Being profoundly fat to the point of heart problems or diabetes = not good.

Some people are going to have heart attacks. The event is often precipitated by exertion. Guys have heart attacks all the time after mowing the yard or shoveling snow. This article can really only cause panic to the innumerate.

Also, if you live in the States, walk outside and take a good look at the next 20 people you encounter. Then come back and tell me that there is a problem in the country with too many people running too far.

/have run a marathon
//still overweight, but would be more so without the training
///there was a time when setting a goal, preparing for it, and accomplishing it was considered a good thing. just saying.

Christ, driving to the grocery store can kill you.

Every year around the running of the MCM and NYC marathons, these articles start popping up, usually along with a few pieces about how slow runners are ruining it for the fast runners.

If you want to do a marathon, go for it - but train for it.

/Did MCM and had a blast
//insanely slow
///figure it's still better to be a slow runner than a lardass.

RevMercutio: pisceandreamer:
///figure it's still better to be a slow runner than a lardass.

Some of us can be both.

/been running since July
//slimmer by quite a bit, but still the same weight

No No!! The lard from your arse has been replaced with muscle in your legs. Hence, not a lardass.

/good job
//just don't drop dead while running or there will be a Fark thread about you

I hate these 'running is bad' articles that pop up on a semi-regular basis. How many lives are saved (at least until something else gets you) by people deciding to get up off the couch and run

FTFA One marathon-running doctor's advice?

"I don't recommend that people run marathons,

Do as I say not as I do eh, Dr. Richard Cranium.

RevMercutio: KiwDaWabbit: Tom_Slick: Newsflash if you don't train for a marathon it could kill you.

Yeah, it sounds like "with more and more people running marathons...", that really translates to "with more and more people who don't know what they're doing running marathons...". I've heard of people "training" for marathons in the span of weeks now, not months or however long it should really take.

That's just crazy. I've only started running in the past year, so I'm waiting at least another before I even consider training for a marathon.

I also just started running last month, and the advice I got is once you can do 5 mile runs a couple of times a week, it will take at least another year of dedicated training after that before you can complete a marathon.

I'd think running a marathon without preparing for it would be like playing full-pads football without weight training. Except with more heart attacks.

/up to 1.5 miles after only 3 weeks
//amazed at how much of a difference proper running form makes