NYC marathon runner dies after finishing

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Is this an alarm that we should swim more to strengthen our hearts? Though similar tragedies happened to swimmers in the past, too, I believe. Seems all are in their late 50's? News from www.newsday.com/.../ny-nyrun0312133574nov03,0,6679842.story Marathon runner dies after collapsing at finish line BY DANIEL EDWARD ROSEN9:32 PM EST, November 2, 2008 A 58-year-old runner who had just finished the New York Marathon Sunday collapsed at the finish line after going into cardiac arrest and later died at a local hospital, police said. Carlos Jose Gomes, of Sao Paolo, Brazil, was pronounced dead at Lenox Hill Hospital at about 5:20 p.m., police said. He had fallen ill after he crossed the finish line of the 26.2 mile race near the intersection of 81st Street and Central Park West. Two other people suffered cardiac arrest Sunday while running in the race, police said. A 59-year-old man collapsed in the middle of the Queensboro Bridge, police said. A fellow runner stopped and administered CPR until two emergency medical technicians arrived. The runner was taken to New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, where he was listed as critical but stable, according to one of the EMTs. Jean-Louis Maubaret, 59, a French national, was running alongside his wife across the Queensboro Bridge between the 15th and 16th mile of the race when he collapsed, unconscious and not breathing, according to EMT Salvatore Sangeniti. Sangeniti, 47, of the New York Fire Department EMS Division 4, was crossing the bridge from the Manhattan side when he and his partner, Amanda Wong, received a radio call about the runner. They reached the middle of the bridge to find another runner performing CPR. Sangeniti, of Centereach, said he placed a defibrillator on Maubaret's chest. After one shock, he said, the runner regained consciousness and resumed breathing. The runner who performed CPR returned to the race once he saw that Maubaret had regained consciousness, Sangeniti said. Another marathoner suffered cardiac arrest on East 107th Street yesterday afternoon. The man, whose name was not immediately known, had collapsed and was not breathing, according to an FDNY spokesman. EMTs performed CPR as he was rushed by ambulance to Mount Sinai Medical Center.
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    "It does not surprise me at all to see people dying during marathons, you are putting your body under significant stress." Believe me, if you're running at a slow pace, enjoying the views (NYC and Marine Corps Marathon), talking some, taking a ton of ibuprofen, you ain't stressing all that much, which was my case back in 1997,98 and 99. The training, that was stressful, all those long runs, without modern Ipods, with just those old Sony Walkmans with tapes...Jim Thornton summarizes well most of what happens. It seems this Brazilian guy who died in NYC was well trained, had all his tests done before training and running the marathon. Marathons are more dangerous for the fast athletes or for those who didn't prepare well enough. But usually all that hurts is your feet bones and joints after spending hours jogging along. The one factor that running has that is more dangerous than swimming is the fact that while running your heart has to pump blood upstream to your head and while swimming it just flows easily along, thus avoiding a problem (which might have killed Jim Fixx, of running fame) which is lack of oxygen to the brain.Unless swimming butterfly with poor technique (my case) it is pretty difficult to get your HR way up high while swimming. I don't believe you...sorry. Running at any pace for more than 10 miles sounds like a bad idea to me.
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    "It does not surprise me at all to see people dying during marathons, you are putting your body under significant stress." Believe me, if you're running at a slow pace, enjoying the views (NYC and Marine Corps Marathon), talking some, taking a ton of ibuprofen, you ain't stressing all that much, which was my case back in 1997,98 and 99. The training, that was stressful, all those long runs, without modern Ipods, with just those old Sony Walkmans with tapes...Jim Thornton summarizes well most of what happens. It seems this Brazilian guy who died in NYC was well trained, had all his tests done before training and running the marathon. Marathons are more dangerous for the fast athletes or for those who didn't prepare well enough. But usually all that hurts is your feet bones and joints after spending hours jogging along. The one factor that running has that is more dangerous than swimming is the fact that while running your heart has to pump blood upstream to your head and while swimming it just flows easily along, thus avoiding a problem (which might have killed Jim Fixx, of running fame) which is lack of oxygen to the brain.Unless swimming butterfly with poor technique (my case) it is pretty difficult to get your HR way up high while swimming. I don't believe you...sorry. Running at any pace for more than 10 miles sounds like a bad idea to me.
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