Word: marathonical
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...when a 28-year-old woman collapsed and died during the Boston Marathon three years ago, it wasn't lack of water that felled her. It was too much water. A study in last week's New England Journal of Medicine found that an alarming number of runners and other athletes are risking a similar fate. The problem is that drinking too much water dilutes the blood's normal salt content...
...study looked at the blood of 488 runners in the 2002 Boston Marathon. An astonishing 13% of them showed clear signs of hyponatremia, and three were at the danger level. The condition is most likely to strike novice runners, as élite athletes don't want to lose seconds by slowing down at the water stations that line race routes--and they know from experience that they don't have...
...re a middle-ager, it's increasingly likely that you or one of your friends will run a marathon. Folks in the 40-plus group are pretty much taking over the sport, accounting for a surprising 43% of all marathoners in the U.S. in 2004--up from 26% in 1980. The maturing baby-boom generation partly explains that growth. There are simply more folks over 40 out there. Yet there's more than demographics at work. Surging interest in marathons at middle age and beyond testifies to our longer, healthier lives and our growing determination to get the most...
...When you finish a marathon, you cross the finish line and you feel like you,ve accomplished something, and you're so happy because you can point to this as something you worked so hard to do," Schuster said, as she boarded a Monday shuttle back to O'Hare. "We were all laughing about it last night, but today we're just sad that we did all of this, and it might not count for anything...
...third group of runners that Chad Schieber, 35, fell to the ground. A Michigan policeman, Schieber was pronounced dead at an area hospital at 12:50 p.m. (an autopsy later showed he had a heart condition). It was unclear if he, like Hayes, had been denied water on the marathon course...