Comrades runner dies after collapse

grantza said:
are you having difficulty with english, or following the thread ?
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Hahaha wow angry man...

Let me ask the question slightly different... Why should I explain to slootvreter why religion was dragged in here when I am the one that said the religion jokes here are sad? In other words, why do we use a thread of a mans death as an opportunity to have a go at religion....
 
Garyvdh said:
said it was suspected Du Preez had an undetected viral infection that led to organ failure.

"Everyone thought he would get better," he said.
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In other words they didn't have a clue what was going on. :rolleyes:
 
I take my hat off to those with the tenacity to complete the Comrades. It's not for me though, all things in moderation and all that!

Excerpt below from Ultra Marathons Might Be Ultra Bad for Your Heart
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com...-marathons-might-be-ultra-bad-for-your-heart/
A new study, published online June 4 in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, suggests, however, that this “excessive endurance exercise” might actually be putting people at risk for permanent heart damage and possibly lethal cardiovascular events.

“A routine of daily physical activity can be highly effective for prevention and treatment of many diseases, including coronary heart disease, hypertension, heart failure and obesity,” James O’Keefe, of the Mid-America Heart Institute of Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City and co-author of the study, said in a prepared statement. But after reviewing the literature on extreme-endurance event participants, he and his colleagues found evidence that over time this type of training might be changing people’s hearts—and not for the better.

The researchers found that many of these athletes had temporarily elevated levels of substances that promote inflammation and cardiac damage. One study found that as many as half of runners in the midst of, or who have just finished, a marathon show these spikes, which can last for days after an event. And over time and with repeated exposure, these compounds can lead to scarring of the heart and its main arteries as well as to enlarged ventricles—all of which can in turn lead to dangerous irregular heart beats (arrhythmia) and possibly sudden cardiac death.
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