Athlete dies in a tri

Trent

posted: 7/21/2008 at 9:40 AM

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/am-dead0721,0,3185618.story

I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.

Poor baby

Scout7

CPT Curmudgeon

posted: 7/21/2008 at 9:49 AM

100% of people who participate in a triathlon die.

C-R

posted: 7/21/2008 at 10:08 AM
modified: 7/21/2008 at 10:10 AM

Now you are a fatalist too? Time to put away the Nirvana/INXS CDs and get out on the road for some endorphins to help you be the normal crusty irascible cantankerous runner full of stubborn ideas that we all know and love. BTW - stop feeding the Trent troll MTA - isn't swimming in any NYC water source considered life threatening.

"He conquers who endures" - Persius
"Every workout should have a purpose. Every purpose should link back to achieving a training objective." - Spaniel

Scout7

CPT Curmudgeon

posted: 7/21/2008 at 10:20 AM

I was just pointing out the statistics.

RunZRun

running yogi

posted: 7/21/2008 at 10:30 AM

Quote from Scout7 on 7/21/2008 at 9:49 AM:

100% of people who participate in a triathlon die.

yeah, but not while participating in the tri. that's sad. i am coming across too much of such news these days. kind of begining to scare me a bit.

Econo

posted: 7/21/2008 at 1:14 PM

It's always during the swim. Three deaths this year in the U.S. in triathlons... Sad

JakeKnight

posted: 7/21/2008 at 3:31 PM

Quote from Econo on 7/21/2008 at 1:14 PM:

It's always during the swim. Three deaths this year in the U.S. in triathlons...

Strange. I would have blamed the bikes.

E-mail: JakeKnight2002@aol.com
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Mr R

posted: 7/21/2008 at 3:35 PM
modified: 7/21/2008 at 3:35 PM

http://dailyviews.runnersworld.com/2008/06/non-runner-dies.html

What was the secret, they wanted to know; in a thousand different ways they wanted to know The Secret. And not one of them was prepared, truly prepared to believe that it had not so much to do with chemicals and zippy mental tricks as with that most unprofound and sometimes heart-rending process of removing, molecule by molecule, the very tough rubber that comprised the bottoms of his training shoes. The Trial of Miles, Miles of Trials. How could they be expected to understand that? -John Parker

cgerber

posted: 7/21/2008 at 3:50 PM
modified: 7/21/2008 at 4:54 PM

Quote from Econo on 7/21/2008 at 1:14 PM:

It's always during the swim. Three deaths this year in the U.S. in triathlons...

And someone I know died training for an Ironman while swimming off the coast of China earlier this year. Bummer. Always sad to read that stuff.

jEfFgObLuE

More Cowbell!

posted: 7/21/2008 at 4:15 PM

I think you're more likely to die driving to and from the race than actually participating in it.

When you're on your deathbed, you won't be wishing that you'd spent more time at the office. But you will be wishing that you'd spent more time running. Because if you had, you wouldn't be on your deathbed.

Teresadfp

posted: 7/22/2008 at 8:23 AM

Quote from jEfFgObLuE on 7/21/2008 at 4:15 PM:

I think you're more likely to die driving to and from the race than actually participating in it.

+1

JakeKnight

posted: 7/22/2008 at 9:00 AM

Quote from jEfFgObLuE on 7/21/2008 at 4:15 PM:

I think you're more likely to die driving to and from the race than actually participating in it.

You're probably several orders of magnitude more likely to get hurt on the drive to the race than during the race. But that wouldn't make a good news story, now would it?

E-mail: JakeKnight2002@aol.com
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jEfFgObLuE

More Cowbell!

posted: 7/22/2008 at 9:41 AM

Quote from JakeKnight on 7/22/2008 at 9:00 AM:

You're probably several orders of magnitude more likely to get hurt on the drive to the race than during the race. But that wouldn't make a good news story, now would it?

No, but it might make a good Onion news story. "Local man dies driving home from Yosemite after dangerous BASE jump off El Capitan."

When you're on your deathbed, you won't be wishing that you'd spent more time at the office. But you will be wishing that you'd spent more time running. Because if you had, you wouldn't be on your deathbed.

shellabree

TRIing to beat the heat!