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(KTLA) Sad Marathon runner falls over dead just short of the finish line. Nobody likes a quitter   (ktla.com) divider line 28
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Walker [TotalFark]
2011-10-31 09:24:43 PM
Quitters never win and winners never quit.
 
Bathia_Mapes [TotalFark]
2011-10-31 09:47:37 PM
I didn't know Sarah Palin was a marathon runner.
 
serial_crusher [TotalFark]
2011-10-31 10:38:01 PM
37-year-old Charles Whitmore Riske, of Costa Mesa, suffered a medical emergency near the finish line at L.A. Live around 9:30 a.m. as other participants were finishing up the 13.1-mile course.

That's only half a marathon, subby and TFA author
 
Smeggy Smurf
2011-11-01 12:08:09 AM
Bathia_Mapes: I didn't know Sarah Palin was a marathon runner.

Over in 2
 
Huck And Molly Ziegler
2011-11-01 12:11:29 AM
Seems to be taking the historical concept of "marathon" a bit too seriously, I'd say.
 
GoldSpider
2011-11-01 12:33:16 AM
As someone who ran his first half-marathon this weekend, I'm getting a kick... wait no I'm not! I can barely walk on this knee, let alone kick!
 
joel!!!!!
2011-11-01 01:02:04 AM
I hate hearing about shiat like this, especially since I'm running the Rock 'n' Roll half in Savannah this weekend. It'll be my first.

/getting a kick...
//csb
 
Fuggin Bizzy [TotalFark]
2011-11-01 01:02:07 AM
A high-school kid in my town just died on Friday after collapsing during a cross-country race. Doctors aren't sure why he collapsed or what the cause of death was. Everything seemed normal. Weird shiat.
 
Marine1
2011-11-01 01:20:39 AM
"Tell me... how's it feel to be a quitter?"
 
Angry Scotsman
2011-11-01 01:29:25 AM
He was just emulating the original Greek runner Pheidippides.
 
animesucks
2011-11-01 01:57:08 AM
heart attack is the most likely cause. hyponatremia is something that any race organizer is terrified of, but for it to be severe enough to cause death is less likely.
 
mc_madness
2011-11-01 02:01:34 AM
Fuggin Bizzy: A high-school kid in my town just died on Friday after collapsing during a cross-country race. Doctors aren't sure why he collapsed or what the cause of death was. Everything seemed normal. Weird shiat.

Marijuana use obviously...
 
0Icky0
2011-11-01 04:47:04 AM
He should have known the Riskes. They were his family, after all.
 
AbbeySomeone
2011-11-01 06:02:56 AM
0Icky0: He should have known the Riskes. They were his family, after all.

dammit.
Riskes run in his family.
 
Candygram for Mongo
2011-11-01 06:23:52 AM
Fuggin Bizzy: A high-school kid in my town just died on Friday after collapsing during a cross-country race. Doctors aren't sure why he collapsed or what the cause of death was. Everything seemed normal. Weird shiat.

Cross-country running is great if you live in a small country.
/same goes for skiing.
//not obscure, I hope.
 
littlett's [TotalFark]
2011-11-01 08:28:35 AM
joel!!!!!: I hate hearing about shiat like this, especially since I'm running the Rock 'n' Roll half in Savannah this weekend. It'll be my first.

Good luck!

Main advice I would give is to hit the early water stops even if you think you don't need to. Just have a few sips and go on. And if people are giving out orange slices, by all means eat a few of them. They always seem to really help us out.

Other than that just keep moving and have fun.
 
dickkopf
2011-11-01 08:59:29 AM
Huck And Molly Ziegler: Seems to be taking the historical concept of "marathon" a bit too seriously, I'd say.

In for a penny; in for a pound, I say.
 
oryx
2011-11-01 09:41:52 AM
Since when is a marathon only 13.1-miles? I'm always the last to know.
 
Chulainn
2011-11-01 11:10:28 AM
Fuggin Bizzy: A high-school kid in my town just died on Friday after collapsing during a cross-country race. Doctors aren't sure why he collapsed or what the cause of death was. Everything seemed normal. Weird shiat.

Sudden Cardiac Death is a possible cause, it's nearly impossible to detect until there is an ischemic event and by that time it's very likely too late.

/Not a doctor.
//Did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
///No I didn't
 
Another Government Employee
2011-11-01 11:18:42 AM
I wonder if it was a down and back course (13.1 in each direction). That is how the Atlanta marathon is set up.

That said, RIP.
 
Uzzah
2011-11-01 11:33:43 AM
oryx: Since when is a marathon only 13.1-miles? I'm always the last to know.

When you fall down dead at the 13 mile mark. It's hard to run the second half of it when you're dead.
 
MiamiBlues
2011-11-01 11:37:59 AM
Another Government Employee: I wonder if it was a down and back course (13.1 in each direction). That is how the Atlanta marathon is set up.

That said, RIP.

The Atlanta marathon? How the hell is anyone not dead after 26.whatever miles in frickin' Atlanta?
 
bacongood
2011-11-01 11:57:56 AM
Another Government Employee: I wonder if it was a down and back course (13.1 in each direction). That is how the Atlanta marathon is set up.

That said, RIP.

RnR LA is just a half marathon, not a full.

And from looking at the course map, it is basically two out and backs (run out a couple miles in one direction, go back the same route but keep going past the start/finish area for a couple miles, then return that same path).
 
TNel
2011-11-01 03:13:48 PM
Uzzah: oryx: Since when is a marathon only 13.1-miles? I'm always the last to know.

When you fall down dead at the 13 mile mark. It's hard to run the second half of it when you're dead.

Well half way isn't "just short of the finish line."
 
Fuggin Bizzy [TotalFark]
2011-11-01 03:23:51 PM
Candygram for Mongo: Cross-country running is great if you live in a small country.

Heh. I haven't heard that one before. You better believe I'm going to steal it, though.
 
Nogale
2011-11-01 05:31:22 PM
I'm sure that no one has pointed out yet that this was a half-marathon, not a marathon.
 
Another Government Employee
2011-11-01 08:06:36 PM
MiamiBlues: Another Government Employee: I wonder if it was a down and back course (13.1 in each direction). That is how the Atlanta marathon is set up.

That said, RIP.

The Atlanta marathon? How the hell is anyone not dead after 26.whatever miles in frickin' Atlanta?

Don't know. I have a couple of friends that have run it. It is a pretty damn challenging course.
 
hogans
2011-11-01 08:22:55 PM
The marathon was Fixxed!
 
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