Nope this is not accurate. I get 82F at 9AM with a dew point of 68F. Any dew point above 55 is uncomfortable and 68F is downright ridiculous. For comparison the next day the dew point will be 47F at 9AM. So not even close really. Dew point is the only important measure here. Everything above 60F in dew point is a soup and you can barely cool yourself.
You are looking at today’s values. Toggle the date/time.
Here’s another link. It was not 82F at 9am at that location.
Sucks, but he went out on his own terms, it seems. To have the nads to finish the race, literally at all costs... Yeah you lose judgment the more you fade, until it might be fatal, a spiral.
One wonders if there were ever any warning signs during training, etc.
Too bad he died, we probably lost one of the good ones. Much respect. Rest in peace 💪
Anytime you get 22k people together statistically someone is going to have a heart attack. Happens at most baseball games.
Not true. Please don't just repeat something you heard somewhere sometime. The risk of a heart attack per person per year is 0.0032, based on US health data. Therefore if you get 22k people together for four hours, there is only a 3% chance that there will be even one heart attack. Also, only about 10% of heart attacks are fatal, so the chance of a fatal heart attack among 22k people in four hours is more like 0.3%.
Not very good at statistics. This heart attack isn't merely a random independent event. The question is "what are the chances of heart attack during a 13 mile run?" which is dependent on exertion and the individuals health history.
Someone had posted video of the finish line and presumably the person who died. They went down and out and was motionless. There was no urgency to treat this guy, get the defib, etc. Took like 5 minutes to scoop him up on a gurney and get them out. I didn't see anyone trying to save him at all. Why?
How do you know he needed to be defibrillated, he could have been in asystole? Contrary to just about every television show ever made that attempts to depict the process of defibrillation, you cannot defibrillate what is not fibrillating. You don't "shock" someone to start the heart, you "shock" them to stop the current, irregular rhythm; V-fib, pulseless V-tach, etc. No electrical activity = dead, the heart isn't a car battery, you cannot jump start it.
You are correct, but AED users should know that the device can determine when a shock is helpful. I don't want people to hesitate to use an AED when it may actually be helpful. So, if an AED is available, use it! It will analyze the heart rhythm and shock if appropriate.
What on earth does this mean ? Sounds like he was into LSD.
"Reichman was a founder of Field Trip Health, a mental health and psychotherapy company in Kips Bay, according to his LinkedIn profile."
"The company, founded in October 2020, says that it is 'redefining mental health and well-being through ground-breaking work in psychedelics and psychedelic-enhanced psychotherapy,' according to its LinkedIn page."
The 32-year-old runner who collapsed and died after finishing the Brooklyn Half Marathon was a New York University master’s graduate and a behavioral therapist, The Post has learned.
Unfortunately running is not good for people. This is a tough lesson.
An extremely illogical post. Less than 1% of runners have a cardiac event that leads to hospitilization or death. The odds of dying while running are probably lower than dying in a car accident. Jeez do people think before posting? By your logic, driving is not good for people.
I was in the 7:00 AM wave at the race...it was soupy but not hot. The sort of day that your glasses fog up on constantly. But it wasn't hot until later....maybe those still running at 10:30 AM or something like that.
No way the race should have been cancelled in the wave the runner died in....if that race were cancelled they'd have to cancel just about every summer race in NYC.
Not sure about the later waves...maybe the last one was pushing things as it got much hotter.
Unfortunately running is not good for people. This is a tough lesson.
An extremely illogical post. Less than 1% of runners have a cardiac event that leads to hospitilization or death. The odds of dying while running are probably lower than dying in a car accident. Jeez do people think before posting? By your logic, driving is not good for people.
It’s true that the risk of dying while running a marathon is low, about 1 in 150K for men and 1 in 244K for women [1]. However, it is worth noting that these deaths predominantly happen in the last quarter of or after finishing the marathon, so it was very likely caused by the exhaustion of running, i.e., these runners aren’t just folks with heart conditions that would’ve been just as likely to drop dead had they gone to work that morning instead of running a marathon.
Hopefully these death rates go down as wearable technology to measure elevated risk of cardiac arrest while running improves and the hobby runners actually take those warnings seriously.
Background Millions of community-dwelling individuals run marathons each year. There are infrequent deaths, which are often reported widely, and may create unnecessary alarm about the potential risks. Equally, sensible planni...
What on earth does this mean ? Sounds like he was into LSD.
"Reichman was a founder of Field Trip Health, a mental health and psychotherapy company in Kips Bay, according to his LinkedIn profile."
"The company, founded in October 2020, says that it is 'redefining mental health and well-being through ground-breaking work in psychedelics and psychedelic-enhanced psychotherapy,' according to its LinkedIn page."
there's a small but growing field of medicine that involves using mind-altering drugs to heal mentally ill patients. Things like using E or molly in PTSD patients. Seems to have some science behind it. There are several publicly traded companies that are working on finding purposes for recreational drugs.
One of the interesting pieces of the puzzle is that big city marathons frequently cause large traffic jams which....wind up killing non-participants.
Usually because an ambulance can't get a patient to a hospital in time because it is stuck in marathon traffic.
A different layer of risk of these things.
Urban legend by anti-fitness car / truck supremacists. There's zero chance an ambulance couldn't get across one street were that the only way to.only hospital.
ok found it. In the New England Journal of Medicine. Which is as legit as it gets. I don't say that I agree with the study, but it's not urban legend.
A new study suggests marathons interfere with ambulance service. Transportation delays may help explain why elderly patients with cardiac problems are more likely to die if they live near race routes. The issue: Government and community leaders often boast about the economic benefits of major marathons, which can bring thousands of athletes and visitors to an area, generating millions of dollars in tourism revenue. More than 30,000 runners from 95 countries entered the 2017 Boston Marathon. In 2016, 28,664 people entered the Honolulu Marathon, once the world’s largest long-distance running race. While such big events may bolster local business, they also require road closures and cause other disruptions that affect communities near the marathon route on race day. A new study offers insights into how marathons — and events such as parades and protest marches — may impact local residents.
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