Second death confirmation rocks 2022 Comrades: 'Two deaths are two too many'

[ShaunSA]

When did they announce the comrades was open ? (I only heard of it last week, but I don't follow it)

Don't follow it but here you are spouting bullschit

 

[TelkomUseless]

Don't follow it but here you are spouting bullschit

Dude.. chill. I'm asking a question? Why do I care if people die ?

 

[Pak Fa Fui]

The race was only announced after the mask mandate was lifted, not enough time to train for non professionals

 

[TelkomUseless]

The race was only announced after the mask mandate was lifted, not enough time to train for non professionals

Thanks for the info.

 

[Cray]

From some past deaths, I remember hearing people running after recently recovering from Flu, where the heart is severely weakened.

People commit to the race, and can't bear not running, even if sick

I would guess a weak heart for whatever reason would be the cause.

RIP

A friend of mine was due to run, came down sick on the Saturday, he didn’t make the start.. Heartbreaking after all that training but definitely did the right thing.

 

[ShaunSA]

Dude.. chill. I'm asking a question? Why do I care if people die ?

Yeah sorry about that

I guess I'm just a bit miffed at this over-shadowing the achievements of all those runners this weekend

 

[noxibox]

But yeah, either heart or kidney or something gave out because they pushed themselves too far and beyond all the warnings their body was giving them.

That is pretty much exactly what a marathon is all about. Most of the training revolves around learning to keep going regardless.

 

[TelkomUseless]

Yeah sorry about that

I guess I'm just a bit miffed at this over-shadowing the achievements of all those runners this weekend

No sweat dude. It's all guesses till the facts come out.
"bad news" sells these days..

 

[ShaunSA]

A friend of mine was due to run, came down sick on the Saturday, he didn’t make the start.. Heartbreaking after all that training but definitely did the right thing.

Knowing when not to run... one of the best lessons for any runner

 

[Flanders]

Was it a combo of covid and the flooding that pushed the event back so late in the year? It's normally at easter time IIRC.

 

[Agent_Smith]

Was it a combo of covid and the flooding that pushed the event back so late in the year? It's normally at easter time IIRC.

It's normally in June around Youth Day. Not sure why it was pushed back. Possibly Covid related.

 

[HunterNW]

This I know, but health wise though. These people push very far across the limit.
I know how I feel running over my "limit"
Running ( ultra marathons ) isn't very healthy and the older you get more so.

It's like climbing Everest.
You know you can die doing it, and will be injured.

Checkout the 100miler. 160km. My dad did it one year. I joined him for the last 10km of the race and i battled to keep up.

 

[R13...]

It's normally in June around Youth Day. Not sure why it was pushed back. Possibly Covid related.

But the COVID-19 pandemic has changed one’s concept of “never before”, so few people probably will be surprised that the 95th running of the race will be on August 28, 2022.

So yes COVID and they obviously didn't know that COVID wouldn't be such an issue by now.

One of strong motivating factors for the late date was that the organizers will gain an additional two hours of daylight in which to stage the 12-hour event –a great help in implementing a staggered or wave start, which the organizers feel will be required in terms of COVID mitigation.

 

[Avbob se stoep]

They obviously didn’t drink enough the night before. People must learn to ALWAYS go into an endurance event with a hangover. No chance of death by over-exertion if you follow that one simple rule.

Can confidently say that the hangover helped when I ran a 5km after the Boks game. I ran till about 1.7km where the first water break is, and concluded that I didn't have 2 more of those in the tank and withdrew from the run. If If didn't have the hangover I might have pushed myself for a km or 2 more before withdrawing anyways for being unfit.

 

[Neuk_]

Checkout the 100miler. 160km. My dad did it one year. I joined him for the last 10km of the race and i battled to keep up.

My brother did the Ultra Drakensberg last year which is a 100 mile trail race and the stories he tells of how he had to keep his head going just to finish are insane. Like how he took a break to remove warm clothing and eat something, started chatting to a guy for like 10 minutes before he realised he was hallucinating and he was alone.

 

[Cray]

It's normally in June around Youth Day. Not sure why it was pushed back. Possibly Covid related.

I heard from someone involved with the race was so they could get extra daylight for the race, apparently, it helps significantly with their ability to set up and take down with more light being available. It also means that most of the field gets to run in daylight for that much longer.

 

[Darth Garth]

My brother did the Ultra Drakensberg last year which is a 100 mile trail race and the stories he tells of how he had to keep his head going just to finish are insane. Like how he took a break to remove warm clothing and eat something, started chatting to a guy for like 10 minutes before he realised he was hallucinating and he was alone.

People who is suffering from hyperthermia tend to take of their clothes.

 

[noxibox]

Deaths are rare in comrades, dealing with some of the healthiest and fittest folks in the country. For 2 to die so far this year with some still in icu and on ventilators is a bit of a wtf

You're not necessarily dealing with the fittest. At least not when it comes to measures like VO2 max. Neither does being fit provide any guarantee against dying. This is especially true of running very long marathons which is overall probably bad for the body.

These could be people that a marathon was going to kill sooner or later and it just happens that this particular marathon was the one. Maybe in the past some other marathon would have got them first.

 

[Nicodeamus]

"Unknown cause of death"

 

[Pudding McTwinkle]

Running ( ultra marathons ) isn't very healthy and the older you get more so.

Vast majority of the top ultra runners in the world are between 40 and 50.