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Strange, tragic happenings in Detroit where yesterday three runners died in a 16-minute span while participating in the Detroit Marathon. The men were identified as Daniel Langdon, 36, of Laingsburg, MI; Rick Brown, 65, of Marietta, OH, and Jon Fenlon, 26, of Waterford, MI. Weather conditions were good for running with temps around 28 degrees at the start of the race, rising to the low 40s throughout the morning. According to the Detroit Free-Press, Langdon collapsed at 9:02 a.m., near the intersection of Michigan Ave and First, between miles 11 and 12. Just 15 minutes later, Brown fell and hit his head a few blocks west of where Langdon had collapsed. A minute later, at 9:18 a.m., Fenlon collapsed just after completing the half-marathon, being run in conjunction with the full marathon. Rich Harshbarger, vice president of consumer marketing for the Detroit Media Partnership, said medical personnel had excellent response times, arriving on each scene within seconds. Autopsies on all three men were expected today.
Overall, 19,000 runner took part in the race yesterday in Detroit. The deaths resonated here in Chicago where just two years ago, 35-year-old Chad Schieber collapsed and died while running the Chicago Marathon. That race, unlike yesterdays, had been troubled by intense, unseasonable heat.
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So sad. There's really nothing you can do in these situations. I definitely crossed myself the morning of the chicago marathon, and prayed that i'm healthy enough to survive it.
my heart goes out to the families and i hope they take comfort in knowing their loved ones died doing something that they worked hard for and that they loved doing.
Well put. I've run the equivalent of a half-marathon several times and I just can't imagine dying from it.
Yeah, I've managed to do 3 (I ran in that '07 race) and it's intense but usually there are pre-existing causes to these deaths. But to have three in the same race? Damn. One is rare enough. so sad.
Yeah it has to be a pre-existing condition.
I suppose the only preventative measure one could have done is a stress-test at the doctor's to see if you have any lung/heart problems.
Slaphappy, yeah, i can't imagine dying from one either so long as you have trained properly. The marathon should just be another workout in your training schedule (well not really, but the point is that you should be very much prepared to be running it, not just getting up one day and doing the marathon).
I don't understand why three people died in such close proximity under what some would describe as ideal running conditions (though 28 degrees is fucking cold no matter if you're running or not).
Sad.
I'm shocked we don't see more deaths in marathons actually. 19,000 random people, no need to pass any medical exam, just signing a waiver and showing up day of for a grueling physical contest? Yeah, someone's gonna be in the meat wagon.
Agreed, and it shouldn't reflect poorly on the race itself if these sort of things happen.
Though the heatwave of chciago 07 and their complete lack of adequate water and cooling stations could probably be indirectly pointed to for the cause of some of the deaths and injuries in that race.
Wasn't that also the race where the guy who dropped was taken the long-way to the hospital? A friend of mine ran that year and she said the whole thing was a fiasco due to something with the folks managing.
Personally, I think the whole endeavor is nuts. I do a few miles a week on the elliptical but the idea of going 26 mlles, without being chased by some form of undead, no thank you sir.