davefarb

None of us are getting any younger, and no one gets out alive. I'm gonna slam a pint of ice cream and then go biking...it all works out. If I drop dead, maybe they can harvest my organs.

Vitamin X

Exercise does kill... The production of free radicals in your body is almost at his highest during intense exercise, add to this the pollution pouring out of exhaust pipes which further enhances free radical production, and you have a recipe for disaster... You better start stocking up on white & green tea especially white...

capsicum

MMMMMMM......Soylent

capsicum

Just spotted another bunch of crap. Hyponatraemia: is not water intoxication the word literally means "Low(hypo) Sodium(natrium is latin for sodium)" you sweat salt water you must drink, now get this,.... SALT WATER. If it has about the right amount of electrolites(mostly salt) you can chug a lug all race long with no brain swelling(osmotic pressure) or screwy electrical signals or dehydration. Almost double the sodium of regular gatorade is about right during long and superlong events, three times gatorade for after the event.(the salt can come as food or pills too)
Here is a good artical on re-hydrating
https://www.pponline.co.uk/encyc/0138.htm


Not to mention saving all the resources they use.

C_Heath

what is the wsj ?

Winston Salem Journal?

alanbikehouston

I know lots of older guys who have a limited schedule for exercise. They often enjoy the typical American diet (pass the french fries) and are a bit over-weight. But, they will enter a marathon, or a 100 mile bike ride, and take off as if their life depends on being the first guy in their age bracket to finish. Would I be surprised if one of these guys keeled over while doing a marathon?

My approach is to admit I'm old. I ride and walk everday, an average of one or two hours. But, I am slooow. I enjoy getting moderately out of breath and working up a sweat, but I never ride so fast I'm going to pass out (learned that the hard way).

After half a century of wear and tear, my body finds an hour of slow riding to be more enjoyable than trying to set the ten minute world's record for my age bracket. My "fast riding" friends think my relaxed approach to bike riding is closer to meditation than to exercise...but it works for me. Something is guaranteed to kill me, but it is not likely to be excessive exercise.

MsMittens

Wall Street Journal

To add to this, Toronto ran it's marathon yesterday and someone died. The Toronto Star's Article suggests that he only trained for 2 months prior to the race. I suspect the autopsy will show a heart attack. If he didn't do any training prior to the 2 months, then it was probably unrealistic of him to do the 21 KM (the route has some pretty steep hills that would have taxed his heart even more than just running on flats). Add to that cold and wind (wind gusts of 50KM+ yesterday) along with the competitiveness of any race and his body would have been under a fair amount of stress

flat tire

I would think the influence of fluid volume status, electrolytes, endothelial vessel damage while exercising, and medications may all influence sudden cardiac death (arythmias, clotting, etc) with exercies. Add any other health history into the equation, and we have many variables. I don't know, but it may be best to avoid strenuous exercise when on cardiac meds and/or blood thinners. Medications seldom are evaluated to see what happens under extreme exercise. Blaming extreme exercise itself in these scenarios is like blaming the straw that broke the camel's back. So much research needs to be done in this area. We know very little, then fabricate many theories on why someone died while exercising.

dcon

Exactly. To quote John Hiatt: "Life is short and here's the d#$m thing about it, you're gonna die, gonna die for sure..." Use common sense, be nice, and enjoy life while you're here. I don't think there are any grand secrets.