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She was not properly trained. Um, sounds like your sleep training is lacking as well.
Well, good to know I'll die 5 minutes before my alarm goes off.
I have become Death, the destroyer of electronic gadgets
"When I got too tired to run anymore I just pretended I wasnt tired and kept running anyway" - dd, age 7
If you're dead, and your alarm goes off, is it still your alarm? Or does it belong to someone else?
A neighbour died mowing the lawn. Gardening should come up with a health warning too.
"Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
The bigger question is how long will it take dh to realize I am dead and not either a) ignoring the alarm or b) already out running and merely forgot to turn it off.
I say he shuts it off, goes back to sleep, gets up when his alarm goes off, takes shower, gets ready for work, gets the kids up, starts getting pissed at me that I am not back from running yet because he needs to go to work, calls my cell, leaves message on my cell about "what is the point of you having a cell since it is here in the kitchen and you arent", finally goes upstairs to log in to work to deliver his morning meeting report and finally sees me.
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..., calls my cell, leaves message on my cell about "what is the point of you having a cell since it is here in the kitchen and you arent",
This was my favorite part
It's a 5k. It hurt like hell...then I tried to pick it up. The end.
Yeah, I was troubled by that until we learned of his heart defect which had been previously diagnosed. I wonder if we will ever fid out what killed the firefighter in October. If someone like Jim Fixx dies with heart disease or Ryan Shay dies with a diagnosed defect, I think most of us are reassured by a known cause. If however someone with no abnormalities just flips into a fatal arrhythmia, really almost randomly, well that's a little more scary. I'll keep running either way, but it does make question how hard I should push it right near the end.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_cardiac_death
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertrophic_cardiomyopathy
not bad for mile 25
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_cardiac_death http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertrophic_cardiomyopathy
So hypertrophic cardiomyopathy would be found in 20 - 50 participants in any race with 10000 runners. Someone will die in some race.
So hypertrophic cardiomyopathy would be found in 20 - 50 participants in any race with 10000 runners...
I'm not sure that follows - 10000 participants in a running race are not the same thing as 10000 randomly selected individuals from the whole population.
If true, and I don't want to debate whether that is with this specific post because it's possible that a higher percentage of people that have the condition do not join races, ... why don't 20 - 50 die? Maybe, if only 1 dies, but there are more with it, they approach the race different than others... For example, they don't go all out in the last mile...
And I know that some will probably go ape crazy on those words since it's a "race", but I tend to believe that some exposure to heart challenges during racing has to do with going all out.
Life Goals:
#1: Do what I can do
#2: Enjoy life
Yeah, I know.
Is anyone here running to extend the length of their lives, or to reduce the chance of death before old age? That's not why I run, but I know some who run for those reasons.
Is anyone here racing to extend the length of their lives, or to reduce the chance of death before old age? I don't race for that, and I know no one who races for those reasons.
Now, quality of life - that has to do with both (and with probably every other decision each of us makes).
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