Marathoner dies at US Trials in Central Park

I can't be wrong... what I stated there is fact.

 

the cop who dropped dead while running the chicago marathon a few weeks ago disagrees with you. no drugs and it wasn't heat related. although collapsing four blocks from a hospital and the ambulances getting lost on the way probably had a lot to do with that.

 

Maybe we could wait at least a few hours before we start throwing steroid accusations on the guy's coffin?

Acc. to the Daily News story, he'd had health problems before:

"In 2004, sports scientists at the U.S. Olympic Committee training camp in Chula Vista, Calif., told Shay he was suffering from Adrenal Fatigue Syndrome - severe total-body fatigue. He stopped running for a short period, but soon began training again, saying he was healthy."

 

I believe that Shay had had problems with cardiomegaly, or an enlarged heart, perhaps thought due to normal physiologic changes associated with beiong an elite athlete. The cause of death is likely due to a heart arrhythmia.

Too sad.

 

Hall ran a hell of a race though. 2:09:02. Not a bad time at all. Sad to hear about Shay though. He showed a lot of promise earlier in his career.

 

Enlarged heart, according to his father by way of AP.

And Hall's time, FWIW, was a U.S. Olympic trials record. He's a local guy for us (his brother, too.)

 

What Buck said.
AP story says he was diagnosed with it at 14, and a car accident at 16. The more he ran, the more enlarged it became, but no one ever thought it was a problem because he did not complain.

 

And the guy was a Notre Dame graduate.

Rough day in South Bend all around.

 

good lord

because they also lost a football game?

 

And the running back's brother got murdered.

 

Somehow I think the odds of the recreational marathoner doping are slightly less.

 

If using caffeine or Advil counts as doping, I can guarantee lots of recreational marathoners dope. I take both when I run marathons.